Windows XP forum: Computer shuts down instead of restarting

Hi, Bob.

The machine used to be an HP Pavilion d5100t desktop. With some hardware failures and upgrades, it has become more of a customized build in an HP shell. Here are the specs now:

ASUS P8P67 rev. 3.1 motherboard
750w OCZ power supply
Intel core i7 2600k cpu
AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics
Creative titanium hd (disabled, since there are no drivers for xp)
Plextor m3 128gb ssd with windows 7 installed
Xp installed on 750gb seagate barracuda

All the devices I have seem to work fine and had compatible drivers, except then creative sound card. As noted, it is now disabled.

"All the devices I have seem to work fine and had compatible drivers, except then creative sound card. As noted, it is now disabled."

All I can offer is that you need to use that linked discussion as a XP install guide. I find most folk EXPLODE when they learn what a mess XP installs are today.
Bob

I can't find your install plan. No mention of the detail such as given by HP. You need the full plan. I can't supply your plan, you have to supply your plan so others can look it over.

If you are looking for the steps I followed to setup the system, it is as follows:

--Install XP on partition, using disc to format and external floppy to load intel sata drivers

--install intel series 6 chipset drivers and Intel Management Engine Interface 8.0 driver

--restart

--Install ASMedia USB 3.0 drivers

--Realtek Gigabit LAN driver

--restart

--AMD Radeon Drivers 12.4 for Windows XP

--restart

--install windows updates for Windows XP
--including all service packs, .NET framework version 1.1-4.0
--restarts as instructed by Windows Updates (no failures or errors during this process)

--install AV (using Panda Cloud Free--was using Avast in the past, but too many false positives for me)

--install directx 9.0c for games
--install quicktime 6.3 for games

That's it other than the games themselves. The issue with shutdown instead of reboot starts when Windows XP is first installed, so before any other drivers are installed.

But I might install the chipset drivers again after all that because Microsoft updates have been known to create an issue. Then the audio again (similar story and another angle is directx can replace files that the driver had put in.)

The issue with reboot should EXIST on first install. XP had no clue about this hardware. Are you thinking that an OS in 2000 should do better? I can't know if you were around back then. It was pretty bad and never got better as Microsoft continues to expect users to take classes and more.

One last thing. There is a known bug/issue with XP 32 bit and RAM over 2GB. No. And NO again. Microsoft is not going to fix that.

Hope this helps,
Bob

I'm certainly not expecting miracles or even a 100% perfect system.

One thing I can say is that the issue does not occur in safe mode. Given that, what is a good starting point (if there even is one)?

It doesn't require much and uses, well, it's well written about so I don't have to write much.

You know XP will have issues on this machine. Only the maker can answer if they ever sorted it out.
Bob