Does Vista put stuff in the BIOS/CMOS? That's kinda scary if it does. No, Vista didn't fail but the machine is acting weirdly. Every morning I wake up to find it BSOD'd sometime between midnight and 6AM. But the shutdown instead of reboot thing started before that.
I'm in the process of reinstalling Vista now on a new HD to see if I can figure out what was causing the BSOD's and the reboot/shutdown thing is really annoying. ---- Brian On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM, nobozoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did Vista failed on install of an update? You may need to do a repair > install or unscrew the Windows Installer. > > FYI, if you're smart, you will get all of the necessary M$ 'afterthought' > tools to repair Windows Installer BEFORE you need them - the repair tools > NEED a working Windows Installer to install them! > > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Weeden > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:02 PM > To: hwg > Subject: [H] Shutdown instead of reboot? > > > My HTPC recently started shutting down when I tell it to reboot. It's > running Vista. The reboot command goes in, everything closes nice and > cleanly and then it simply shuts off instead of rebooting. Pressing the > power button brings it right back up. > > It's annoying because if I'm away from home and it does an auto reboot > after > a windows update or I need to remotely reboot it, the server is down until > I > can get back home. > > Any thoughts? BIOS setting maybe? > > > ------ > Brian > >
