No matter how I turn the system off OS wise the laptop restarts in 5 secounds every time even from safe mode shutdown.Now if I wait till the leds all go out and the screen goes blank and use the Power Button on the laptop and hold it down till I hear the power Click(relay I assume}the laptop will stay off till I Power up with the switch again.I've run every virus checker and Spyware program I could find.I've removed the battery and even pulled the CPU and repacked with silver heatsink comp.and cleaned vents.I've swaped the power supply and even the ram.This has been a real stinker for about 2 months now could use some ideas here please.I even reinstalled Windows XP!
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Jump to PostDo this:
Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
Clear the Automatically restart check box under System failure, and then click OK.Click Start > Run
In the text box type the following and then press ENTER: cmd
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Are you using FAT32 or NTFS?
To find out, go to My Computer, right-click your system drive (usually "c:") and select Proterties. Look at the file system.
Jump to PostThis problem can happen when xp is installed as an upgrade. I see you have done a clean install.
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