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Win2K boots up after shutdown automatically

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Badaap

Technical User
Aug 9, 2001
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Dear All,

My Win2K Prof boots up every time I shut it down. Also after de-selecting the APM option in screenoptions.
I happened after upgrading my Dell XPS-R450 to version A13.

Now I have to push the power button for 5 seconds to get it to shut down.

PO
 
I have the EXACT same computer..
XPS-R450 Pentium II...

It's not the BIOS upgrade - ive been running that for months...its your videocard drivers.
 
I had the exact same problem, I ended up having to throw the thing away.

And you know what, I don't have that problem anymore....
 
whats the safes way to uninstall a second copy of windows 2000, when I fdisk and formated my drives, I guess the first copy of windows wasnt deleted, so I now have two of everything on my c:drive. The drives are NTFS, and I already install some other programs. I really do'nt want to reformat all over again, do you have any answers!
 
Same problem but can't afford to throw the system away. Would value a solution. Unticking "automatically reboot" in "Startup & Recovery" in "Advanced" in "System Properties" in "Properties" of "My Computer", did not make any difference. Any solutions?
 
I don't know if this can be aplied here, but when my win 2k pro started to act "weird", I run setup again and I selected to repair existing instalation; result: ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED
maybe I just got lucky, I dunno, but I have had same problems and this took care of it Sylvano
dsylvano@hotmail.com

"every and each day when I learn something new is a small victory..."
 
Check for wake on LAN in BIOS and disable it. There might even be a setting to allow a modem to restart the PC.
 
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