PC Reboots when shutting down

[NWSmart]

Hi All,

I have installed LinuxMint8 on my pc (single os) and have a problem in that when I shut the machine down it goes through the whole shutdown cycle fine and then promptly restarts.

The only way I can avoid this happening is to keep the start button pressed for about 6 seconds during the restart cycle which forces the machine to shut down. I don't really like doing this as with the best will in the world there is always some hdd activity and I don't want to trash my disk.

Would appreciate any help on this one

Thanks in advance

Jim
aka NWSmart

[breaker]

Open a termial and try this way to shut down, see if it is different, or if you get any messages:

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sudo halt

[NWSmart]

Cheers Breaker - will try that tonight when home and report back

[NWSmart]

Hi,

Sorry for delay but have been away.

Afraid the sudo halt command is just the same as selecting Quit on the menu

Anyone have anymore ideas

Jim

[DrHu]

This type of problem is either the manufacturers mainboard issue or it is an apic issue, try running the system with noapic as a kernel option
http://ubuntuforums.org/tags.php?tag=noapic