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reboot on shutdown

Apr 28, 2009 10:26PM PDT

I have a dell inspiron 530 running windows vista. whenever i try to shut down the computer, it reboots. i turned off the "automatically restart on system failure" option in the advanced properties settings of my computer but that did not work. any suggestions on how to fix this? thanks.

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Usually
Apr 28, 2009 11:18PM PDT

Usually this is a sign of the power supply having taken some damage. If the system's still under warranty, call up Dell, have them send you a new one.

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Try this..
May 3, 2009 4:59AM PDT

Open your command prompt (start > cmd) and type:


shutdown -s -t 0


shutdown:

-s : shutdown
-t 0: in 0 second (now)

Hopefully it will work,
Frank

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thanks
May 3, 2009 5:40AM PDT

frank, that worked. thanks.

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reboot after shutdown - Vista
Jul 30, 2010 5:07AM PDT

Works for me. Thanks.

By chance, do you know HOW it works?

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using shutdown -s -t 0 to stop the computer
Aug 6, 2010 11:19AM PDT

It worked initially but now it does not anymore. any other suggestions?