PC is a shutdown fanatic

[Scholar In Disguise]

My pc only wants to shut down. It won't ever restart.

I am pretty sure it is my own doing somehow because my old pc had this same problem.

Both pc's worked fine at first until a few months old, and probably a few too many tweaks. Then, like a said previously, they just won't restart anymore. They shutdown no matter what you chose to do (restart or shutdown).

Any ideas? Any ideas at all?

[morriswindgate]

If you have been tweaking the settings, try to do a CMOS reset using the motherboard jumper. If you have been tweaking too much you might have damaged the RAM.

[Scholar In Disguise]

Originally posted by morriswindgate If you have been tweaking the settings, try to do a CMOS reset using the motherboard jumper. If you have been tweaking too much you might have damaged the RAM.

Actually I have reset cmos a few times and it did nothing(I figured it would do the trick too) . How do I check to see if my ram is damaged? Everything else seems to run fine.
Thanks

[mike breck]

The ultimate way is to swop in a known working stick of Ram and see if the problem vanishes; however, you can also use Doc Memory

http://www.simmtester.com/

If you're doing system tweaks in XP you should always make a restore point first. Then if it goes pear-shaped, you can always go back to where you were.

[Scholar In Disguise]

Thanks for the responses guys A crazzy little thing happened after I installed the firewall called zone alarm. It restarts fine again. It even restarts fine after uninstalling zone alarm. I think I will create a disk image so I don't have this stink'n problem anymore.

Do you guys think it might have been a missing shared file? Maybe a .dll file or something that zone alarm was using and didn't get uninstalled because it was a shared file