Weird shutdown/startup problem

Recently installed Vista on a new computer; I threw in an older Raptor drive
in it initially while waiting for new drive-everything was running
properly. After putting in new drive (Western Digital drive-WD 320GB SATA
WD3200AAKS) and reinstalling fresh copy of Vista, a weird thing started to
happen. When I shutdown Vista it does what its supposed to do (shuts down,
computer shuts off) then 5 seconds later the computer turns on and
reboots....Vista starts normally, etc.

I looked all through the BIOS settings and can't find what might be causing
this to happen...all other aspects of hardware/OS, etc running normally.
The motherboard is a MSI P965 (Intel 965 chipset) NEO F, Intel 6400, 667mhz
DDR2...

I'm wondering if this is a sleep/hibernation issue gone bad or what....

Any help would be appreciated.

-Joe

Double check your BIOS settings for any 'wake on' conditions. Wake on LAN
is a very common problem if you are always connected.

"Joseph Macari" <jmacari1@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Recently installed Vista on a new computer; I threw in an older Raptor
> drive in it initially while waiting for new drive-everything was running
> properly. After putting in new drive (Western Digital drive-WD 320GB SATA
> WD3200AAKS) and reinstalling fresh copy of Vista, a weird thing started to
> happen. When I shutdown Vista it does what its supposed to do (shuts
> down, computer shuts off) then 5 seconds later the computer turns on and
> reboots....Vista starts normally, etc.
>
> I looked all through the BIOS settings and can't find what might be
> causing this to happen...all other aspects of hardware/OS, etc running
> normally. The motherboard is a MSI P965 (Intel 965 chipset) NEO F, Intel
> 6400, 667mhz DDR2...
>
> I'm wondering if this is a sleep/hibernation issue gone bad or what....
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> -Joe
>

John-

Thanks....that did it. I had added a firewire PCI card yesterday; there is
a setting for "wake up by PCI device" in one of the bios screens that I
missed...I guess the firewire card was triggering the restarting........

-joe


"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> Double check your BIOS settings for any 'wake on' conditions. Wake on LAN
> is a very common problem if you are always connected.
>
> "Joseph Macari" <jmacari1@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:u0w0ekbMHHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Recently installed Vista on a new computer; I threw in an older Raptor
>> drive in it initially while waiting for new drive-everything was running
>> properly. After putting in new drive (Western Digital drive-WD 320GB
>> SATA WD3200AAKS) and reinstalling fresh copy of Vista, a weird thing
>> started to happen. When I shutdown Vista it does what its supposed to do
>> (shuts down, computer shuts off) then 5 seconds later the computer turns
>> on and reboots....Vista starts normally, etc.
>>
>> I looked all through the BIOS settings and can't find what might be
>> causing this to happen...all other aspects of hardware/OS, etc running
>> normally. The motherboard is a MSI P965 (Intel 965 chipset) NEO F, Intel
>> 6400, 667mhz DDR2...
>>
>> I'm wondering if this is a sleep/hibernation issue gone bad or what....
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>