Weird shutdown/startup problem

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Joseph Macari

Recently installed Vista on a new computer; I threw in an older Raptor drive
in it initially while waiting for new drive-everything was running
properly. After putting in new drive (Western Digital drive-WD 320GB SATA
WD3200AAKS) and reinstalling fresh copy of Vista, a weird thing started to
happen. When I shutdown Vista it does what its supposed to do (shuts down,
computer shuts off) then 5 seconds later the computer turns on and
reboots....Vista starts normally, etc.

I looked all through the BIOS settings and can't find what might be causing
this to happen...all other aspects of hardware/OS, etc running normally.
The motherboard is a MSI P965 (Intel 965 chipset) NEO F, Intel 6400, 667mhz
DDR2...

I'm wondering if this is a sleep/hibernation issue gone bad or what....

Any help would be appreciated.

-Joe
 
Double check your BIOS settings for any 'wake on' conditions. Wake on LAN
is a very common problem if you are always connected.
 
John-

Thanks....that did it. I had added a firewire PCI card yesterday; there is
a setting for "wake up by PCI device" in one of the bios screens that I
missed...I guess the firewire card was triggering the restarting........

-joe
 
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