XP rebooting

[g1htl]

I would imagine this request has been asked many times so sorry for boring everone with this request for information.
I have installed several pices of software which required a re-boot after which I did, but now the system will not shut down it keeps rebooting. I have to hit the switch off button as it trys to restart.
Any ideas any one ?

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

first stop the reboot

Ok well first thing would be to stop the rebooting, press and hold f8 as it boots up boot into safe mode, now if I were you I would uninstall whatever software your talking about, what software did you install? And also right click on my computer ( desktop ) properties , advanced , startup and recovery, you can turn off the option to reboot here and this will give you an error message thatcan be used to further help .........

 

[GoNz0]

yeh u need that bluescreen to get the error message up

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Did you install easy cd? If so get the update.

 

[mafiafromrussia]

isnt it wrong place for this question? not a lot of people gona look in here.

 

[g1htl]

Thanks to those that made a reply to me, but I still have a problem.
I perhaps should have explained a little more all software works ok and the system run fine, its just when I sign of the machine, it just reboots instead of closing down.
I have un-installed all software that I installed just before I had the problem, but the problem persists.

I assume there is a file left some where that should have been removed after one piece of software had successfully installed.

I am unfamilar with XP so any thoughts or suggestions please.

 

[mafiafromrussia]

try is this thing works. "tsshutdn 5 /powerdown " in run command. that should turn it off completely. but i'm not sure how to fix the over all problem that you got. maybe you should check MS site for this?

 

[guru]

if u sb live remove it device manager and reinstall
go to start>>run>type msconfig
in services tab check hide all microsoft services and uncheck all non microsoft services
in startup tab uncheck everything and restart
and post what happens

 

[rettahc]

It sounds like what is happening is that a service is crashing when you shutdown. and what windows does when a service crashes is reboot. Have you tried looking in the event viewer to see if anything is happening?

 

[allan]

See if this link helps:
http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnxp.htm

 

[g1htl]

Thanks to all that offer advice and information to my problem.
The problem is no more.
I re-installeed the software and all now is working as it should

 

[mafiafromrussia]

good for you. come back for more advices then