I recently had to rebuild a computer for the son of one of my friends. It was a Dell Inspiron something or other. Whilst I had it I flashed the BIOS to the latest version, then reloaded the original XP Pro Media Centre that it came with. All was fine. It was taken home and then, a few weeks later, I was told that it would not turn off. When told to close down, it shut down, paused, and then started up again. Interesting.
When next at their house I had a look. In the BIOS there was a a 'Wake on NIC' setting which was set. I turned this off, and all was fine. Seems that the problem started when the computer was attached to the home network - something I couldn't test on the bench. Seems the network wasn't letting the computer fully shut down. It does now. :-)
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