'ere's a funny thing...
I have a computer which refuses to stay shut down!
<Start> <Shut down> ... everything happens as usual: 'Logging off', 'Saving your settings' 'Shutting down' , Click! everything shuts off, all lights off, monitor goes into standby. Then...
12 seconds later (always 12 seconds), as I'm walking off to make me cuppa, the thing starts up again. Boots up normally and resumes from a cold start - i.e. not resume from standby or hibernate.
The only way to stop this happen is to hold the power button down during the POST for the requisite 4-5 seconds, then the thing stops and stays stopped.
It's doing me 'ed in.
For those who are interested:
Elite chipset with Intel 865G northbridge and ICH5 southbridge; 3G Pentium, 2Gb DDR.
Not set to wake on lan; not set to wake up on ring.
OS is XP SP3 - not that I can think of any difference that can make...
I've scratched head till sore, but that didn't seem to make any difference: I've tried cursing at the thing: ditto.
Any constructive suggestions? (Even though I don't have my money in an Icelandic bank, I don't feel like junking the thing just yet.)
Glum Jim