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My acer is restarting itself after I shut it down. No buttons are pushed and as far as I know no software has been activated. What could cause this situation. The only way I can stop it is by pulling the plug. Could the power supply some how be causing this? Please advise. Thank you in advance. Tony
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When I hear this I ask about your maintenance and use. That is, canned air every month and placement on a nice desk and not a sofa or bed.
Bob
Most definitely a desk, but not a canned a blow out every month but an air compressor blow out every few months. Plus, a wipe down of all the fans and meal surfaces within the case. Also, just in case someone thinks of this question, it is after a shut down, not to sleep or hibernate, but a flat out shut down.
Thank you for your quick response. If you think of anything else that I can check please feel free to advise. Tony
OK, time to look at the BIOS for any Wake On LAN or Wake On Keyboard or any "Wake On" Feature (WOK WOL WOF!)
http://www.howtogeek.com/70374/how-to-geek-explains-what-is-wake-on-lan-and-how-do-i-enable-it/ is a primer about this but I didn't find a manual for your model so this will have to do.
If the unit is rebooting immediately after shutdown, it could actually be something else such as crash on shutdown. To figure that out I change this windows setting (link follows). http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/74644/how-to-disable-automatic-restarts-when-windows-crashes/
If it crashes on shutdown, this should reveal a little more.
Bob
Before I go forward I wanted to check 1st because I noticed that the instructions in what I've read points to XP's operating system and I'm running Vista premium 32bit in that computer desktop. Sp I'm just checking to make sure there are no adverse affects from attempting the procedures?
Thanking you in advance, Tony
Disabling the automatic restart is possible in Vista also. But details to do it might be different from XP. Just try and see.
Kees
Thanks for the info, the disabling seems to have worked. I'm an old mainframe professional and their use to be books with error codes and resolutions for them, do you know if there are any for Microsoft products?
Thanks for the help, Tony
Stop Codes from Microsoft's OS do not mean it's "this" or "that." That is, just because you get a Stop 0xA does not mean it's one thing or another. This area has been discussed for decades so I'm going to keep it short.
But with the advance of the web, search engines you can see what others found out about such codes and then use their experiences along with your knowledge of your PC to see if there is a match.
For example one stop code may indicate a fault in the SCSI driver but what if your PC has no SCSI?
Bob
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