cannot shut down my computer

When you press the button "Stop the computer", the computer shuts down as usual.

But recently, he stopped doing this.

When you press the close button, it brings up a box saying "" standby mode".

the computer turns off and restarts ten seconds later.

I have to unplug the wall to make it turn off.

We have windows xp professional Version 2002 Service pack 3

Concerning

Cathy

Usually, a pc that fails to stop & restart itself, the fault is at the hardware level, add something new...

Also, the BIOS has a 'power mgt' section inside using button operations, XP has this to be

Control Panel, chk times.

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