Shut Down Reboots!

Soldato
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This is quite odd... when I hit shut-down on my PC it actually reboots, meaning I cant hit "Shut down" and then leave my pc to it, I have to wait for it to restart and hit the power button.

However when at a friends house with my PC it shut down fine...

What the devil is going on! :eek:

I think my PC is haunted :(
 
It probably blue screens or something just before it finished shutting down. By default it'll be set to reboot. You can check this by opening up the system properties on the control panel. Go Advanced > startup and recovery settings. Then there'll be a tick box to automatically restart upon a system failure. Untick this and you'll probably get a blue screen on shutdown, and should be able to work out what's causing it.
 
Well my USB is extremly problematic, and completely-not-hot-pluggable. If I unplug something that may be in use (USB network card) = BSOD. Never had this on my old PC :/
/cry
Will play with the BIOS next reboot, and have killed the "auto restart" :)
 
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