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Apparently, with this motherboard, you just have to hold the power switch on the tower for a few seconds before it will power off (even though that is not the setting selected in the BIOS.) All solved.

Problem resolved. After swapping out each hardware item, piece by piece, it turned out that my motherboard has gone bad. I'm now running all original hardware with a new motherboard (and a new install of WinXP as well) and everything's flawless. Thanks for the input everyone!

My video card in use is a Voodoo3 3500TV card. I cannot recall what my friend's card was. It should be noted that I never made it into WinXP with his; so I didn't get a thorough test with a different video card (such as setting up XP from scratch with it in the system.)

Well, first off, this is using a slot-1 Pentium III 550E processor. I do not suspect this is a battery issue, as the problem is happening with two different motherboards (each having its own battery.) Thanks for the suggestion, however.

Over the past month, my computer has begun to have problems. It all started on the 1st of April when I booted the PC up for the day. Basically, as WindowsXP was booting, the PC stopped, and then just reset itself back to the BIOS screen. It went to load XP a second time, and it just reset...

When I am done using my PC, I go through the normal steps to shut it down, using WinXP Pro. However, when it drops to the black screen with the XP logo, stating that it is now ok to turn off my computer, I am unable to. No matter how many times I hit the power button on my tower, it is...

domxp, I just thought that I should let you know that you are not alone in this issue. Since it's been several weeks since it's happened to me, I do not recall if I had RTCW on my system at the time. However, the problem began for me when I had used the TweakUI for WinXP and had chosen to...