Posts Tagged "Automatic Reboot/Restarts"

Windows XP Shut Down and Automatic Reboot/Restarts Problems

Posted by Norman Ammans on Sep 17, 2009 in Windows errors | 0 comments

This topic was prompted by a problem that one of our clients was facing. He ran into a problem trying to get his computer to shut down: He was running Windows XP Professional and it absolutely refused to shut down. Every time he tried to shut down it could go through the motions, but when it got to the point to turn off the machine, the BIOS screen could come up and the machine reboots. Annoying; well let’s look at the causes before we tell you what worked for our Client. There are three basic sources of automatic reboot problems: · Recovery settings · Software incompatibilities, including driver issues · BIOS problems Recovery Settings One of the things that is...

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