Windows 7 keeps restarting after shutdown?

bal1985 · 22 Dec 2014

My build: Intel Core i5-4440, HIS Radeon R9 270, Corsair 200R - My 1st Build - budmonster's Saved Part List - PCPartPicker

Just built my first PC, installed Windows 7. Every time I click shutdown from the start menu it turns off then boots right back up. Any ideas on whats going on, is something wrong with the PC? It wasn't doing this a few days ago. It just recently started doing it. I first noticed that in the morning that my PC was on even thought the night before I turned it off. Then I tried shutting it down tonight and it just basically restarts instead.

MilesAhead · 24 Dec 2014

Try booting in Safe Mode. If it shuts down OK from there it may be some hardware fault that triggers a reboot. By default Windows will reboot if it encounters a fatal error. Perhaps it is trying to power off some device and that fails. It's pretty much a process of elimination unless you see something in the logs.

bal1985 · 25 Dec 2014

MilesAhead said:

Try booting in Safe Mode. If it shuts down OK from there it may be some hardware fault that triggers a reboot. By default Windows will reboot if it encounters a fatal error. Perhaps it is trying to power off some device and that fails. It's pretty much a process of elimination unless you see something in the logs.

I right clicked on My Computer and went into my Ethernet settings:

I unchecked all the "Wake on LAN" settings and it seems to work for. PC isn't turning back on after a shutdown. But that doesn't solve the real problem. However, something obviously is sending my PC a magic wake up packet, I just simply removed the ability to wake on LAN so my Ethernet is no longer responding to the "magic packet" or whatever that is. Any ideas on what I can do to role everything out?

MilesAhead · 25 Dec 2014

I'm not a networking expert. There may be some keepalive setting or other setting that causes network traffic. I would check TCP/IP docs or forums. Also search the networking and sharing sub forum on this board.

Sometimes in Windows a work-around is all you can get since many modules go back years and the core code is not likely to be reimplemented. The File Explorer is a good example.