Pc is rebooting instead of shutting down.

[C_deck]

other than turning off autostart after system failure....

i went to m$ knowledge data base, typed in windows 98 and "restart after shutdown"

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

good hunting.

[sKuLLsHoT]

to be honest aslepios, i think the problem (in our case) was exactly that - however it was doing it as we shut-down, i think i remember vaguely having turned off that error-crap in xp to see if that fixed it. we dont use and NEVER touch roxio coz its crap, so it wasnt that at all for us - and the person that started this thread said it happened in 98 as well as 2k after a format so, valid suggestion, duno bout relevance...

the post about the acpi setting is most correct - the way i see it is that windows got the HAL a little muddled and was crashing on the instance it tried to shut the computer down, as rebooting worked fine.

[asklepios]

cheers skullshot...
something new for me...:D