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Question

computer restarts when shutdown/sleep

by May 16, 2016 6:58AM PDT

recently, my internal network card got fried during a lightning. after that computer just wont shut down. it restarts everytime i shutdown/sleep. i replaced it with a new external nic. but the problem persists .

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by May 16, 2016 7:56AM PDT
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Re: restart
by Forum moderator May 16, 2016 8:28AM PDT

Maybe more is damaged than the internal network card (did you physically remove that, or - if integrated on the motherboard - did you tell device manager to ignore it?). In that case it's possible more needs to be replaced or repaired.

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