Myself and a mate have the same problem. I reloaded my screen drivers:confused: - and now XP instead of switching off just restarts every time.

My mate loaded a game (wolfenstein I think!) and his does it too!

Any idea's?

I guess its to do with the APM - but how to fix it?

n.n Turned ACPI off on mine ages ago as it did'nt like my legacy ISA parallel card (2 LPT ports), but its only just started to do the restart thang.

Doc, I don't have an answer to your problem but you may find some help on this site www.xp-erience.org I have found it quite helpful.......hope you sort it:)

Rich

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Just in case anybody saw this and had the same symptoms I have finally found out what was causing the problem.

Roxio Easy CD Creator....both basic & Platinum. Although they said ECDC v5.0 worked for XP, they were wrong....it introduced a lot of issues into XP, one of which is rebooting instead of shutting down.

Roxio have recently issued a patch to version 5.1 which fixes these XP problems. - installed patch - fixed;)

Apparently 90% of XP rebooting problems are fixed by this patch so if you have the same problem then its your first port of call!

see www.roxio.com

edited due to crop spilling:D



[Edited by Dr Hu - 3/22/2002 10:02:20 PM]