I'm running XP on a Toshiba laptop.  A little while ago, for no
apparent reason, it started rebooting when I tell it to shut down. 
That is, I click 'Turn Off' on the "Turn Off Computer" dialog.  It
goes through the process of shutting down.  Then once the screen goes
blank, it starts up again.   Sometimes instead of starting up it just
gives me a blue screen with text indicating that there has been an
error.

Anything I can do to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 08 Nov 2005 12:51 PST

Please let me know if the solutions here help:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1010867298

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 08 Nov 2005 12:53 PST

This might also help:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

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Clarification of Question by theworld-ga on 10 Nov 2005 15:56 PST

thanks for the tips.  Nothing has worked.  I've disabled various
things and restarted numerous times.  Once in a while I see a blue
screen that says:

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down...
IRQL_NO_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Disable or rename any new hardware or software.
Disable BIOS memory options such as chaching or shadowing

I would do the BIOS thing if a knew what that meant.

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 12 Nov 2005 05:56 PST

Hi the world,

Have you tried this yet?

Symptoms:
* Your computer may automatically restart when you try to shut down.
? When you shut down your computer, you may receive the following
error message on a blue screen:
STOP 0x0000000A (0x000002DC, 0X000000FF, 0X00000000, 0X804E9D48)
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 
To try to work around this issue:...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311466

Regards,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by theworld-ga on 12 Nov 2005 08:39 PST

Dear Hummer:

I had not tried it.  I did try.  And it worked!  Thank you so much.

Hi again theworld,

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post my answer, I
appreciate it. I'm really glad to hear that MS's solution worked for
you - I'm sure your laptop will enjoy the rest.

Here it is again to make it official...

Symptoms:
* Your computer may automatically restart when you try to shut down.
? When you shut down your computer, you may receive the following
error message on a blue screen:
STOP 0x0000000A (0x000002DC, 0X000000FF, 0X00000000, 0X804E9D48)
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 
To try to work around this issue:...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311466

Thanks again.
Sincerely,
hummer

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Theworld, thank you for the tip! Sincerely, hummer