[PSUGorilla]

Originally posted by LiQiCE
Glad to say I've found the problem! One of the settings in the Power Management settings of the BIOS is called "Power on by RING or WOL", and this is set to "Enabled" by default! I turned that sucker off and now the computer shuts down like normal. Glad to say that the board is otherwise functioning normally (although, does anyone else notice that the floppy drive is accessed at random sometimes? ... It always seems to happen when I'm opening an Explorer window, and always on bootup). Not a big deal, possibly just some stupid setting in XP that I've neglected to change ... but I thought it was odd. (I've done virus scans too, and I didn't pick up anything so I don't think its anything like that) ... Anyways, PSUGorilla, thanks for your help, and I hope that you can resolve your rebooting problem ... I know that I have that problem once in awhile too ... but its usually due to me setting my memory timings way too aggresively or overclocking!

Get this:

I was writing a reply to this thread suggesting that you go into your power management settings in the BIOS and set them to fail-safe defaults so see if that made a difference...but while I was writing my reply, I got a BSOD with a "Page fault in a non paged area" error so I never got to finish my reply. I was runnung Prime 95 in the background while I was replying, so I thought I had a memory issue. So for the last hour, I ran Memtest86 to check for errors but didn't get any. So I've toned my memory settings down from "Turbo" to "By SPD". So for the time being I'm running Prime 95 and everything is fine. I suspect my memory settings were too agressive, as you suggested.

So all's well that ends well, huh?