XP Restarting & Restarting & Restarting

Yes, Microsoft did it to us again.
I had problems with a couple of XP systems myself.

I ended up changing the sound card and modem. For whatever reason, they would not work with my motherboard with XP.

There is a good shut down trouble shooting guide posted at www.aumha.org

It has many good hints.

Make sure that ALL of your hardware has the latest XP drivers.

Chas

Try this article at microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q320299
(remove any spaces)

It basicly tells you where to go to turn off autorestart which is by design if NT is experiancing any fatal errors.

Also if you have Roxio easy CD creator, MS list a problem that can be resolved by getting the latest update at www.roxio.com.

If you turn off AutoRestart feature you may notice a blue screen with error message on it. You can write down the info it gives andresearch it on MS support site(support.microsoft.com). Or you can post back here and we will try to help.

Jason

Besides:

www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnxp.htm

Use Ad-aware from Lavasoft to see if there is a problem with spyware.

It has also been suggested that this is really a BSOD problem.

Go to Control Panel, then go to System. On the Advanced tab, go toStartup and Recovery

In the Settings area, you will see a checkbox "Automatically restart"
Uncheck it..
Now if it fails it won't restart and you might be able to find a reason in the log files.

If this problem were on a win 9.x OS, i would suggest looking at the MSDOS.sys file and or your autoexec.bat, however win XP is based off Windows NT structure and does not "from my knowledge" use or have a MSDOS.sys file. They must however use some sort of file similar in function. Directing the boot procedure to locate the OS's location, partition, boot command. Perhaps try looking in the BOOT.ini file. I strongly suggest searching the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base for more info. Try these leads, at the following URL:
--http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311806--

I had exactly the same problem...although my machine is a little newer.

The other ideas suggested seem more complex and time consuming, so give this one a whirl.

By defult when Win XP installs itself it disables APM (Advanced power management). Now i am no guru on this subject, but my machine was suffering exactly the same problem. I went to control panel, power managment, APM tab, enabled APM, restarted...problem solved..simple

Hope your solution is just as easy

Why on earth would you like to upgrade to XP??? Win2000 is more stable, even WinNT is better. XP has some secret that we are not aware of, you see MS is trying to introduce a yearly pay-me-license-fee, that is the reason lots of things are going onin there. Just remove your XP and go back to Win2000. You will be more safe.

Your problem looked interesting so I dug into MS web site. For all of these go to microsoft.com and click on the Knowledge Base link.
Windows XP Restarts When You Try to Shut Down Your Computer
Q311806
Computer Does Not Shut Down Properly if Selective Suspend Is Enabled
Q315664
Windows XP Restarts Unexpectedly or Restarts When You Shut Down the Computer
Q320299
These are a few but there are alot more:) you thought win98 was bad about this")

if you are usin a atx power supply you can set what the botton on the front does you can set it to shut off the mainboard or just restart that was the only prob. i have had

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