Windows XP will not shut off computer

[Rooster]

Whe I go to "Turn Off" computer using Windows XP Home it does not turn my computer off.. it just reboots.. I have to shut it down manually. Some trouble shooting solutions were to go to "Power Options" in Control Panel and click on the APM Tab to emable AMP.... I have no AMP tab. I went in to my BIOS and noted that ACPI function was already enabled..... Anyone have any sugestions? Thanks all.....

WIN XP Home
AMD 2800+
512 mb DDR Ram
120 gig WD special edition HD

[cdb252]

I don't know if this is your problem or not but I put together a new computer and when I tried shutting down it would reboot instead. I went to numerous forums and tried a lot of things that didn't work. One suggestion was to change my power supply which I did; I put in a 400 watt Antec and my shutdown problem was solved.

Hope this helps.

[Rooster]

Thanks for the suguestions. I too built my computer and it has a 350W Power supply..... should really be ample enough to not have the problems I'm having.... Thanks again my friend

[Grendel]

You are probably getting a Fatal Error on shutdown that is causing the computer to reboot.

Right click My Computer, then Properties/Advanced Tab, and uncheck Automatically Restart under System Failure.

Get you STOP code and then go from there.

It is probably being caused by a version of Adaptec Roxio Easy CD Creator.

Good Luck, and let us know your progess.

[Rooster]

Thank you Grendel. I did that yesterday and received a blue screen at the end of shut down saying something about not enough disk space (Impossible----120gig HD just loaded).. and a few other messages taking about cache size and shadowing could be the problem also... (System has plenty of cache and a 2800+ AMD processor) so it should have nothing to do with cache or shadowing).. I wish I new the exact message but when I read it I knew it did not pertain to this problem. This message only occured when I unchecked the box labeled restart on system failure. I have since checked the box back but get the same message. Very frustrating. I checked BIOS and "restart after system failure" was DISABLED so that should not be the problem.
Thanks for any more info.

ROOSTER

[Grendel]

Get the error again and let us know what it is, it will help us identify the problem.

The important part is the STOP 0X000000xx part.
The first set of numbers, what are they.

[Rooster]

Grendel. Thanks again... As fast as that error message came... it went... thats a good thing... but my computer still does not power down after I "turn it off" in Windows XP Home.... It has to be something simple that I'm missing. This is my first computer build so I am extatic that its running so fast and so good.... just frustrated that this is happening.

Thanks again..... Rooster

[Grendel]

Uncheck the box to get the error again.

[Rooster]

Ok. I will am will get back to you. Thanks

[mikeguen]

Originally posted by Grendel
Uncheck the box to get the error again.

Grendel:

I have the same problem. WINXP will not shut down.

The blue screen says:

I. Check to make sure new hardware or software is properly installed. ( I have checked and there are no errors in Hardware, Device Manager. )

II. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

III. Stop: 0x0000000A (0x000002CC, 0x000000FF, 0x00000000, 0x804E3B58)

I resort to turning off the 120VAC to the machine when the blue screen shows.

Any suggestions?
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

I will note here that I have given up on any anti virus program. I have made an image (Norton Ghost 7) of my machine.

I make updates to the system, hardware and software only after restoring this image. I immediately make a new image of the updates and keep the old image for 14 days in case of a problem.

I keep any important information on a Compact Flash card and restore my computer image every morning.

I use Pestpatrol and Zeroads during the daily activities to stop my computer from bogging down. This has eliminated all of the adds, cookies Trojans and popups from interfering with my daily activities.

Thank you,

Mikeguen

[Ba2lake]

I'm getting this message in a blue screen:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Stop: 0x0000000A (0x000002CC, 0x000000FF, 0x00000000, 0x804E3B58)

Any advise for the fix will be greatly appreciated. Thank you much.

[Razzle51]

Originally Posted by Ba2lake

I'm getting this message in a blue screen:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Stop: 0x0000000A (0x000002CC, 0x000000FF, 0x00000000, 0x804E3B58)

Any advise for the fix will be greatly appreciated. Thank you much.

Where are Bios? I have looked everywhere. Thanks

[Slogmeister]

After a little searching on http://support.microsoft.com I found a useless article that says basically that it's a device problem.

That means that either a hardware device is malfunctioning or a virtual device isn't behaving well.

So, I went through all my devices one by one and discovered that is was my CD-ROM. I disabled the CDROM in the device manager and the blue screen went away.

Well, obviously, that's not an acceptable solution. I'm sure that the CD-ROM on a brand-new laptop is just fine. Particularly since this problem didn't crop up until the user had it for a while.

I went looking through my Add/Remove programs list and found the Adaptec UDF Reader. As far as I know, this isn't required for Windows XP. I uninstalled it and everything is back to normal.

Of course, if you don't have this installed, you're going to have to go through the same process I did:

1. Disable darn near everything.
2. Reboot and make sure blue screen is gone.
3. If blue screen is still there, disable more, otherwise move to 4
4. Enable one device
5. Reboot (the device is still unloaded (even if its PnP))
5. Reboot again (the device is not loaded)
6. If blue screen appears, you found the device.


Good luck.

Originally Posted by Ba2lake

I'm getting this message in a blue screen:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Stop: 0x0000000A (0x000002CC, 0x000000FF, 0x00000000, 0x804E3B58)

Any advise for the fix will be greatly appreciated. Thank you much.

[gamer635]

my computer wont shut off period it stays at the blue windows is shutting down screen. i manually shut it down to get it to turn off. i've waited 6 hours for it to shut off and it still doesnt

[foruneo]

Try this....

Create shutdown button by your own

One-Click Shutdown:
If you have Clean Sweep Deluxe, you should disable it before proceeding.

Follow these directions to create a one-click shutdown shortcut:
1· Navigate to your Desktop.· On the Desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, createa new shortcut).
2· You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path.Enter one of these as the path: "SHUTDOWN -s -t 01" without quotes.
3· If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace "C" with the correctletter of the hard drive.
4· Click the "Next" button.
5· Name the shortcut and click the "Finish" button.Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you're done.
Also, if you want to make life better and faster, you can right-click the new shortcutyou just made, go to Properties, and type in X (or whatever letter) in the Shortcut Keybox.