My Thinkpad L540 restarts immediatly after shutting down!

My new Thinkpad L540 is working correctly, except that the only way to shut it down seems to be holding the power button for four seconds. In particular,
If I turn the laptop off normally from my OS (by pressing the power button or entering some command), the laptop shuts down properly and starts again after a second.
If I press the power button when the laptop is booting (on the Lenovo logo), the same happens.
If I turn off the laptop by pressing the power button for four seconds after booting and the power cable is on, the laptop also turn on.
If the laptop is off and I connect the cable, the power button blinks a few times but this time it doesn't turn on.
Any ideas of what may be causing this?
Also, when I try to suspend the computer it also resumes immediately. I guess these two issues may be related.

My BIOS has an option to switch on when AC is attached, but it's currently off. I tried to set it on and off again just in case, but that didn't work.
I installed GRUB (since the Poweroff command on syslinux don't work on ACPI, for some reason) and tried to do what you wrote (pulling out battery, pressing power button for a few seconds, putting battery back in, and issuing "halt"), but the result has been the same as always. I also tried installing the 2.6 kernel on a new Ubuntu 12.4 installation, but nothing changed.
I did order my laptop with an SSD which was originally an SSHD in the Windows 8 installation, but now I'm using it to put the root partition on my Linux installation. I'll try to reinstall Windows 8 to see if that solves anything.
I'd probably try to find my warranty at this point, but unfortunately I live in Argentina where importing and exporting technology without bringing it yourself is pretty much impossible since a) I have to pay excessive taxes for everything, b) That means the "fixed" laptop will be stuck in the central mail for a while and c) There's a 100% chance it will be stolen by some employee there. I'll see if I can get back to a world with sane commerce laws before my warranty expires

Similar Messages

Why does Airbook sometimes restart itself after shutting down?

My MacBook Air sometimes restarts itself after I shut it down. At first I thought I was carelessly choosing the wrong command, but now I'm clear -- it's the Airbook. Also -- I had thought this was unrelated, but now I'm not so sure -- it's been forgetting to start up automatically some mornings. And yesterday at 3:19 pm it informed me that it was getting ready to shut down, "as instructed" (the actual instruction in the Energy Saver is for midnight).

From: Eustace Mendis
Sounds like a Broken Drive...
Most of the times this will be solved with a HardDrive Replacement
although,
you could try this
Restart your Mac and hold down the Command key and the R key (Command-R).
Keep holding these keys until the Apple icon appears.
This indicates that your Mac is starting up.
After the Recovery System is finished starting up,
you should see a desktop with an OS X menu bar and a "Mac OS X Utilities" window.
After you do this, select Disk Utility and run it.
On the next screen,
Select the hard drive in the left hand column,
the First Aid tab on the top, and click on Reparid Disk. (bottom left)
When that is done, click on Repair Permissions.
When that is done, quit Disk Utility and restart.

Thinkpad S540 restarts when i shut down

Hi
I have had this laptop for 7 months now, but since about 4 weeks ago when i click on shutdown i realised that it looked like it was shutting down... and 30 seconds later would fire up again. At first i thought it was me clicking the wrong button, but it has happened daily now. Only way to shut it down is my removing the power cable and then shutting down.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
Thank you!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Aurora_mc,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with system not shutting down on your ThinkPad S540.
Is the issue persists when you try it with safe mode option?
Have you done any update for your system, may be with Windows update or with ThinkPad update?
Go to BIOS and press F9 to set the BIOS to default option and F10 to save and exit.
Please let us know the status after performing the above troubleshooting steps.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
Did someone help you today? Press the star on the left to thank them with a Kudo!
If you find a post helpful and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution"! This will help the rest of the Community with similar issues identify the verified solution and benefit from it.
Follow @LenovoForums on Twitter!

Combo restarts automatically after shutting down

Hi , I have a psu of 350 (Antec) a P4 3400 Prescott with 512DDR2. with vga ATI x300
Overload Protection
Latching Protection
+5V @ +3.3V @ +12V @
cpu temp: 42 case temp: 42
and everytime I shut down: my puter restarts automatically, it is terrible
what do I have to do ?????
then when it finally shuts down, when I restart I have to press 3 times the reset button to actually boot normally...
I tried the bios, management options,....
I would be eternally greatful
Opt.

ok, I see, it doesn't matter if it is antec or whatever psu as long as it is +400W with decent V12.
If I knew that before, I would have purchased the sonata with my own chosen psu.
now I will have a good 350W antec psu for nothing.......
I will purchase a new psu, some you guys are mentionning (thanx a lot guys )
I will give my whole computer to the shop, they will remove the mobo , replace it with new one (they just called me) and if the problem persists,...welcome antec full power....
I cannot do another thing than this. I don't want to blow my pc. it is running perfect except of that , except the reboots and won't starts....:D
thanx again. I was thinking if I had a neon light I would be in a discotheque with the reboots....could win some money if I asked for it....spooky:D
Opt.

My PowerMac G3 300MHz 512MB restarted automatically after shut down

The only way to turn off my G3 now is to switch off the mains. The problem still persists after clean install of the OS to 10.2.8. Also the shut-down key on top right hand corner of the keyboard no longer works. Is there a bug hidden somewhere in my desktop?

I'm thinking some hardware is causing this, do you have any PCI cards or USB/Firewire devices connected?
How to reset the SMU/PMU on a Power Mac earlier G3, G4, G5 models...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939
Oh, after turning off the mains, does it startup by itself again when turning on the mains?

Mac mini restarts on its own after shut-down.

The Mac mini will restart by itself about 10 minutes after shut down. I turned off all the restart options in energy saver. Funning 10.4.8 with the latest firmware instalation.
Any suggestions how to stop this?

I have had this problem for a looooong time and I think I finally resolved it. Last weekend I was trying a demo of MacPilot 3 and found Elgato's EyeTV had two items in the Power > Events list. Apparently when you set EyeTV to start up the computer for it's schedule it restarts the computer randomly rather in a reasonable amount of time before the recording begins. Since there were two files, I think 1 was left over from previous EyeTV version and was starting up the computer even though I told EyeTV not to start the computer at a later date. Deleting both files seems to be the solution.

Losing Desktop Items/Documents after shutting down and restarting

Twice, over the last couple of months after shutting down and restarting my macbook, everything on my desktop gets deleted, and it seems all the settings go back to their original form?
Anyone have this problem?
Message was edited by: jram1111

Hi, I had this problem and it was due to setting file vault in the security settings. I removed having that set and then I had to go into system settings, Account and under Login Items, add back items such as mail and things that required passwords that were not coming up on my dock after each time I shut down.
I hope this is helpful! Better late than never - if you have fixed yours, maybe this will help someone else.

My iMac screen keeps showing pixels of previously opened documents and Safari tabs and hour or two after closing them. The shadow of those opened documents are still there hours later after shutting down and restarting my computer. What is happening

My iMac screen keeps showing pixels of previously opened documents and Safari tabs and hour or two after closing them.
Even when I swipe to the dashboard the outlines are still there when I know they should not be.
The shadow of those opened documents are still there hours later after shutting down and restarting my computer.
What is happening and what shall I do? Thanks in advance.

Not much to go on in your product info, but maybe this will help: iMac (27-inch): AMD Radeon 6970M Video Card Replacement Program. If not, then it's time to visit an Apple repair station.
27" i7 iMac (Mid 2011) refurb, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), ML & SL, G4 450 MP w/Leopard, 9.2.2

Photoshop won't open after shut down and restart. Any ideas?

Photoshop won't open after shut down and restart? Any ideas?
Hazelydogs

Apple does not support 3rd party software. Again, post in Adobe's forums. Plenty of Mac users there who uses their products.

IMac restarts instead of shutting down

Hello,
I have a 2009 iMac 24" running 10.6.2. When I select shutdown from the shutdown menu it asks if I want to shutdown and then after selecting yes it starts the shutdown process. After shutting down it immediately restarts. When selecting shutdown from the login screen, it shuts down correctly.
-I've zapped my PRAM
-I did a SMC reset
-I've unselected restart after power failure
-I have a wireless USB mouse connected
-I have Apple's wireless keyboard
Any thoughts?
Help is much appreciated

If it does not happen in the new account (you should try it a few times to make sure), then the cause is usually one of two things, and there is probably not anything wrong with the overall system.
First is a background process that runs in your normal account. Check System Preferences Accounts pane +Login Items+ tab. Remove anything there that you no longer need to have running. Then, with what's left, remove one at a time and test to see if it makes a difference; make sure you note what you removed (and where it is located) so that you can put it back if it was not the cause.
Second are user preference settings. In this case, this is a bit harder to trouble-shoot, because I can't think of any particular user preference file that would make a Mac restart instead of shut down.
If the problem does not happen in a new account, and you can't determine the exact cause, one thing you could do is create a new user account for ongoing permanent use, and transfer your user data from your current account to the new account. Eventually, once everything is working fine, abandon your current account.

How to remove black "blocked plug-in" window that opens with iPhoto. It covers iPhoto and everything under it. I've right and left clicked the black window, restarting the computer, shutting down the computer, but the window always appears when I ope

How to remove black "blocked plug-in" window that opens with iPhoto. It covers iPhoto and everything under it. I've right and left clicked the black window, restarting the computer, shutting down the computer, but the window always appears when I open iPhoto and it will not move or go away. It stays on my screen (covering my desktop icons) even after I quit iPhoto. How can I get it off my screen?

Which version if iPhoto and MacOS X do you have?
Do you have any iPhoto plug-ins installed?
Open the folder /Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Plugins/
To navigate to that folder, open the folder "Library" directly on your Macintosh HD, then inside the Library folder go to Application Support, then iPhoto. Is there anything installed?

In 2 node RAC. After shutting down database not able to connect.

I have 2 node Oracle 10g RAC (RAC-1 and RAC-2) on Windows 2003 Server.
After shutting down instance on RAC-2
I am not able to connect to database from any node.
I did this on RAC-2 :
SQL>shutdown immediate;
Database went down smoothly.
SQL>conn sys/oracle@rac as sysdba
ERROR:
ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currnetly know of services requested in connect descriptor.
My first node is running fine but I am not able to connect to database from first node or from client.
Any suggestion???
Regards:
Sushil

One question I want to ask, what should be the Listener Services startup mode in RAC? MANUAL or AUTOMATIC???Ideally, if you are instances and other oracle resources are set to autostart then there is no reason for you to set the listener to MANUAL. You may like to change it to AUTOMATIC so that on reboot it comes up without manual intervention.

IE had unknown error and after shut down laptop screen is blank

HP Pavillion dv6t Select Edition Customizable Notebook PC # A2Z58AV
Windows 7
IE popped up with a message that there was an error. No other explanation. After shutting down and rebooting, the laptop screen is black but has power.
No changes made to operating system before this occured.

Hi @devitojj
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I would like to take a moment and thank you for using the forum, it is a great place to find answers. For you to have the best experience in the HP forum, I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More.
I understand that when you power off your notebook it automatically restarts in 4 seconds.
You have tried several steps to try and resolve this but there is no change.
As it repeated the behavior with the hard drive removed, you know it is not an issue with Windows.
You have tried updating the bios and returning it to bios defaults but no change.
Here is a link from answers.microsoft.com that helped other people with this issue.
Windows 7 computer restarts automatically after shutdown
This does suggest you edit your registry which does have the potential to cause issues, so be very careful. I would also suggest backing up your registry before you attempt it, just in case.
Back up the registry from Windows.microsoft.com
If that has not helped, I would try removing the Cmos or RTC battery for 30 seconds and then replacing it.
Please let me know if this helped.
Sparkles1
I work on behalf of HP
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the “Kudos, Thumbs Up" on the bottom right to say “Thanks” for helping!

Satellite E45t won't start for few hours after shut down

I have a brand new Satellite E45t-4100. After shutting down, I am not able to start the laptop for few hours. Upon pressing the power button, say after 15 minutes, power button LED lights up but nothing is displayed on the screen. I have disabled the sleep mode from power settings as I was facing the similar situation when trying to wake up the laptop from sleep. Although, when restart is chosen, laptop restarts without any trouble.
Please help.

Hello,
I have the exact same problem as the OP with an E45t-a4300. Purchased almost a year ago (Oct 30, 2013) from Best Buy. Worked perfectly for about 2 months after purchase and then this problem arose. Started when I'd put the computer to sleep, it wouldn't wake up. The computer would just shut off when I'd go to wake it up. When I'd hit the power button to restart, the fan would briefly spin, power indicator/wifi light turns on, then it shuts down again. I would repeat this cycle- sometimes only a few times, sometimes for almost an hour- before the Toshiba splash screen appeared with the "computer wasn't shut down properly" and the computer would restart and run the standard diagonostics. However, at first on a cold start or start from hibernation it would start fine but after awhile that stopped, too, and any starting attempt was met by the same non-start/shut down cycle.
This went on for about 3 months with me basically rarely shutting down the machine. I searched forums at the time and found nothing regarding this problem. Then one day in mid-March, the start-up problem miraculously disappeard- it fired right up. It started perfectly fine and worked with no problems whatsoever for 6 months, including waking from sleep and hibernation, until about 2 weeks ago. Now the same problem is back- it won't turn on with multiple start attempts and shuts down when you try to wake from sleep or hibernation- showing the "computer wasn't shut down properly" on the splash screen and going through the test process when if finally does start. Also, I'm now unable to enter the BIOS page on start up when pressing F2. I also have disabled rapid start, etc after the problem began.
I've owned quite a few laptops over the years (including Toshiba) and work with computer based systems for a living. I REALLY love this laptop a lot (yes, even with 8.1) but this problem is just disheartening. I truly appreciate any help.
Thanks!!

Auto Start up after Shutting down

I'm new to the Mac and am not sure of this is a normal issue or if there's a setting that I accidentally triggered. On my MacBook Pro when I shut down, it starts up again after shutting down. I'm not selecting restart and am not sure if I updated software and held off on shutting down so I don't know if its that. Is there a setting I have to adjust or is there some issue I have? Feedback is greatly appreciated.

HL
Try resetting the PRAM. Force the machine to shutdown if it won't shutdown. While the machine is turned off with your leftt hand hold down the option+commands keys. Then turn the machine on and immediately with your right hand hold the P key with your little finger and the R key with your index finger. Wait until you hear the Apple chime twice, release all key and let the machine boot up. Also try starting in the safe mode. Make sure the machine is shutdown then power it on and hold down the shift key until you see the gray Apple screen then release the shift key. let it strat up in safe mode. Then login to your user account and try to shutdown the machine again. See if this helps.
Joseph

My Thinkpad L540 restarts immediatly after shutting down!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for