POWER OFF ISSUE K8 NEO4 PLATINUM (DON´T SHUTDOWN ALWAYS RESTART)

I have a strange behavior with my main board.  It has worked well for almost three years. But now, I decided to change everything to a new case, and I decided to upgrade from XP to Windows Vista (no real upgrade, I format my hard disk and perform a clean install). And I have something very strange happened. 
Every time I shut down the computer, performs the process smoothly, and when it goes off, the computer is restarted automatically. Do not stay off.
It's the same if keep pressing the power button for about two seconds. (in post for example)  It seem to be shut down, the fans almost stopped immediately but the computer starts up again.
The only way to turn it off is to keep pressing the power button more than seven seconds. But I cannot turn off normally from the command “shut down” Windows.
I tried several solutions, without any success:
Try several power buttons on of different cases: Also,  I have to manually shutdown the computer joining the pins of the ignition of the mainboard ( Not worry, I have been careful not to make any short circuit)
Test setup minimum, only memory, processor and video card. ( We also tried another video card and other memory).
Try different power supplies.
Disable all peripherals in the bios. (usb, parallel and com port, audio, lan, ATA, SATA, raid, IRD. IE1934, floppy, etc)
Change all possible power configurations of the bios:
IOAPIC Function (enable and disable)
MPS: (1.4 and 1.1).
ACPI Standby State (S1 and S3)
Video Off Method (all options)
Power Button Function (power off and suspend)
Restore On AC Power Loss (keep off)
Wake-Up Event Activity (disable everything)
I don´t changed or updated the BIOS. I have installed version 1.9. The last according MSI Liveupdate.
Actually, I do not know what to do. I do not think that is any configuration of windows, that this behavior as I have with the minimum configuration, without any operating system. Also disable all wakeup events of the network for nforce chipset from device manager in Windows.
The computer works fine on Windows, I don´t have any “death blue screen”, no hanging, freeze or problems with devices or drivers.
I need your suggestions and assist me with some answers:
Can the new drivers for Vista to make changes directly in the firmware of the components of mainboard? (Especially MSI chipset and Nforce drivers)
Will could have damaged somewhere in the process of changing case? (remember, the computer works fine in windows without errors)
Can I make a degradation of the BIOS firmware to an earlier version?
I will receive all suggestions and ideas to solve my problem. It is a good mainboard and I think ridiculous change for the inconvenience.
Thank you all for your help. 
Josh

"Same issue with all PSU"
What stats they have? (Amperes per each line)
Also read Moan Guide and provide full details about your PC.
Have you tried with different memory stick?
"Every time I shut down the computer, performs the process smoothly, and when it goes off, the computer is restarted automatically. Do not stay off."
That means auto power on? Have you tried with mainboard out of PC case?(It could be shorting issue, or power switch issue)

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    I have set up a web site that shows screen shots of the ping plotter.  Please take the time to look at them and tell me what you think.
    http://webviper.com/LanIssues.htm
    Thanks for your help.
    Regards,
    WebViper

    Hello !!
    Please give more information about your system specs.
    But i would try the following:
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    Greetz

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