My computer won't shut down

chronozfire

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Oct 30, 2017
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Hi everyone
So as title explains, I have a really annoying ongoing issue which I can't seem to fix. I mean, I really, really tried, but no success.
Whenever I try to shut down my computer or hibernate it, it reboots straight back up.
At first I didn't know, like, I found it powered on by the morning while I remember I had shut it down, and I just assumed it was my mistake.
But now I know it was not. I stayed longer after that happened repeatedly, waiting a few seconds after I just turned it off, and indeed, it does turn on by itself.
I started looking at fixes on the internet, for answers that might help my case.
I did everything I found relevant. I disabled fast startup; I unchecked "Allow this device to turn on the computer" within the device manager panel for my internet driver; I changed a registry as showed in a step-by-step video; I cleaned up my computer, like uninstalling unwanted programs, scanning for malwares and junk stuff.
Nothing has worked. My computer has to be forced to shut down, you know, pressing the power button for like 10s. Sometimes I just have to repeat the shutdown-button-click process like 3 times in a row, in between a restart everytime before my computer finally decides to genuinely shut off.
So now I decided to create this thread, in case somebody was my Holy Graal, and could enlighten me. Whatever it could be, if it's software, hardware, viruses, drivers.. I'm willing to try everything.
Thank you :)

PS: On another note, when I want to restart my computer, naturally I click on the accordingly button made for that very purpose, and.. I find myself looking at the monochromatic screen with this unique word in the middle: "Restarting" but for like a very awful long time.
It's very random how my computer reacts when it comes to power (shut down, restart). I thought that maybe my shutdown/hibernate and restart issues could be somehow connected.
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
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Have you tried resetting the BIOS as it could be settings in there are conflicting with windows 10 and causing the restarts. I have seen it happen before

Do you have latest BIOS for motherboard?

what are specs of the PC?
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
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Specs = a parts list.

Do you know what motherboard you have? If you let me know that I can find the manual for it and it should include instructions on how to reset it to default settings. Its possible a previous operating system has set power up differently.

If its a brand name PC, can you give me Make/model? (only as knowing motherboard in that case may not help as much)
 

chronozfire

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Oct 30, 2017
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I don't know what motherboard I have.
Well now that you mention it, it was a different Windows 10 build, and something happened so I had to install a new version of Windows 10. But I don't think I've had these issues ever since; it was only recently, for like a month now.
It's an Asus PC but I don't know about the model.