Mysterious System Restart

Posted: 10-23-2003, 07:39 PM

Nate

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Perhaps someone can help me solve a dilemma I have been
experiencing with Windows XP Home. When I am finished on
the computer and want to Shut it Down, I have only been
using Hibernate lately. WHY? This is because if I choose
the red tab "Shut Down", the computer shuts down alright,
but then 3 or 4 minutes later the computer mysteriously
starts up and brings me back to my password screen. What
a pain, and now it has even rebooted on its own
from "Hibernate". I know the halloween season is upon us,
but this posessed computer stuff is a real killer. Can
anyone in Whoville help with this eminent problem.

Regards, help is appreciated sirs and madame,

nathan

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Michael Solomon $MS-MVP Windows Shell/User$

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Re: Mysterious System Restart

Posted: 10-23-2003, 09:24 PM

It sounds as though you have wake on lan enabled. When you boot the system,
the first screen has a message explaining hot to enter setup and a key to
depress, do so. Once inside you'll have to navigate around but look for
wake on LAN and turn it off, then save and exit.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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"Nate" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01eb01c39994$f3e5f790$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> Perhaps someone can help me solve a dilemma I have been
> experiencing with Windows XP Home. When I am finished on
> the computer and want to Shut it Down, I have only been
> using Hibernate lately. WHY? This is because if I choose
> the red tab "Shut Down", the computer shuts down alright,
> but then 3 or 4 minutes later the computer mysteriously
> starts up and brings me back to my password screen. What
> a pain, and now it has even rebooted on its own
> from "Hibernate". I know the halloween season is upon us,
> but this posessed computer stuff is a real killer. Can
> anyone in Whoville help with this eminent problem.
>
> Regards, help is appreciated sirs and madame,
>
> nathan

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