Does your XP keep on rebooting, you shut down and it starts again and again?
Try this?
Start>Control Panel>System = System Properties>Advanced>Startup and Recovery>Settings>Systems Failure>Unselect Auto Restart>OK>OK again>Close Control Panel>Start>Turn Off Computer>Turn Off and you should get a blue screen with a Stop message clue to the problem, similar to that below.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Stop: 0x0000000A (0x000002CC, 0x000000FF, 0×00000000, 0x804E3B58)
Now – Have you made any changes recently?
Try System Restore via Start >All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore>Restore My computer to an earlier time> Select a bolded date to try to get back to the way it was before this failure started to show itself. Sometimes selecting different dates will works when one date may have failed.
If to no avail you can reverse it it back to your current setup so no worries and then follow through with the Stop: 0x00000000A procedures.
One more thing though!! Do you have Adaptec UDF Reader installed?
(My machine running XP Home with Sonic Record Now and Adaptec UDF Reader is fine but my machine with XP Pro and Roxio developed this reboot problem that I solved by deleting UDF Reader as below.)
So – Have you installed it or made any changes in that respect recently?
Have used CD/DVD writing programs?
If Yes then look for Adaptec UDF Reader in the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Tool and Uninstall it if you find it listed.
Try rebooting to complete the uninstall and again then hopefully it will have resolved the problem and windows will shutdown normally.
If you tried the System>Advanced>Startup and Recovery>Settings>Systems Failure and unselected Auto Restart then remember to select it again.
If that fails then I regret that I must point you back to the Stop: message and the procedures details in the STOP message.
If I get more info then I will add to to this post and if you have any solutions I will be delighted to add it here with a link credit to yourself.
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