Help with this bizarre problem, if i shut my computer down it restarts automatically.

[Morthoseth]

Simple enough to explain, if I pressed shut down right now, the computer would go off as any would normally, then two or three seconds after all the components power down, it magically turns itself on again - so I have to resort to waiting for the system to power down then flick the switch at the back of the PSU to prevent it from starting up again.

If I do that and then in the morning turn the PSU on, it will not automatically start up - it will wait for me to press the power button.

Now, I've looked around BIOS at possible answers to this question, but cant find any!

Anyone had the same problem? Hope its something pathetically simple to fix!

 

[Morthoseth]

Maybe the shutdown button has somehow changed path to the restart path?
Try making a new one:
right click desktop, new, shortcut
copy/paste this into the 'location of item': C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00 -f
hit next.

Sadly not, I have reformatted serveral times (not just for this issue)

Every time I press shutdown it says "Windows is shutting down.." and every time i press restart it says "Windows is restarting..."

But thanks