Hya again Friends at SAF

My PC is restarting instead of shutting down, the only way to shut it down properly is to pull the plug at the appropriate time (just after Windows shuts down/before POST)).

This problem started immediately (no software changes) after increasing system RAM (previous post re mixing RAM Modules). 'Automatically Restart' is not checked in Advanced System Properties (although I did try checking it and unchecking it with a reboot). No error messages and Event Viewer did not shed any light, neither did this -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q311806

Anyway, just for good measure, cleaned out (CCleaner/fixed issues), ran AV (AVG) and defragged - It's still automatically restarting on Shutdown.

Would appreciate any ideas on this one . Thanks.

Bill.

XP Pro/SP2, 1.56GHz Athlon,1GB RAM

Hya Friends

Just resolved the shutdown problem, all I did was reset the system time which was a few minutes slow! (Haven't got a clue why this would cause the problem).

At one point I'd turned the PC off by holding in the power button but the next boot up took me into BIOS where the processor speed was highlighted (1153MHz), I reset this to 1.53 - That's how I lost the few minutes of system time.

Anyway, all is well that ends well. Cheers if you gave this some thought.

Bill.