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Won't power off

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by friscojw

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I've got a desktop running Windows 98 and when I shutdown it immediatly powers itself back up. About a year ago I had a similiar problem and a microsoft downloda fixed the problem but I can't fing anything about it. Anyone have the location or canoffer a suggestion?

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by wls

Try disabling your advanced power settings in BIOS. Some machines can spring to live when they detect a ring signal on a modem or fax card, a burst of network traffic going by, etc. It's highly likely that you really are getting the machine powered down, but it soon sees an event that makes it wake up again.

by rev. ned

Reach around behind the machine, there should be an on/off switch. Then next time you boot up, go to CMOS and reset your APM.

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