Powering down issue

I recently had to reinstall Windows XP Home on my computer due to a corruption error message that came up as it posted. The computer works fine but it has begun to restart after the shutdown from Windows. When I click on "Shut down," it logs me off, saves settings and then shuts off the system, which then restarts after two or three seconds. Hitting the power button will shut it off, but I don't understand why it's doing this now, since it was never happened before the reinstall. I already unchecked the "automatic restart" in the Restore folder. Could it be a BIOS problem, since there have been several updates. I don't know if the motherboard is even involved here. I appreciate any advice.

Checkout the properties of your network driver.
There is a setting in there to make the system awake on network-traffic, turn that off and the system should stay off after shutdown.
This is not a BIOS matter but a networkcard setting in Windows.
Something like the picture below.

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I haven't had this happen yet, but I can fully understand your annoyance, both at the glitch and the unhelpful responses you've gotten.
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2. If it does, do a backup and sync on iTunes, check to make sure you have a good backup (go into the Advanced/Devices tab and hover your mouse pointer over most recent backup). Then disconnect, reset, power down and see whether it happens.
3. If it's not happening in either of the above cases, methodically go through starting up from power off, starting up and then exiting an app you use, then shut down after exiting. If you do this one app at a time, you may eventually find an app that is causing the problem. If you do, report it to Apple.
4. If none of the above is eliminating the problem, knowing you have a good backup, go through resetting your various settings. Making sure first you have all password and SSID and security protocol written down, start with resetting your network settings. Re-find your wireless connection, re-enter all the relevant info, join your network, and then shut down. See if there's any direct cause and effect there. If not, go further and reset all settings.
5. If none of that isolates the problem, making sure you have a good backup in iTunes, that you've reliably sync'd all Notes and Contacts and Bookmarks somewhere outside your iPad, and that you've used a camera download utility, be it Aperture, or whatever you use to download photos from your iPad, or that you have a specific photo sync setup in iTunes you can trust, then try Restoring your iPad as new, and test it out without any of your content or changed settings. If it's still doing it at this point, bring it in for Apple to look at. If it seems fine, restore everything from backup, and either you'll be good to go at that point, or will have restored whatever was causing the problem with your backup. At that point at least, you'll know it's not a hardware problem.
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Hi Everyone
Hoping you can help as i've tried pretty much everything I can think of to resolve this. I've been running CS5.5 production premium for a while now, powerful PC, everything was running fast and working great.
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Sounds to me like you may have bad power supply units. I know of several people who had Rev B machines that were covered by THIS repair program.
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