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A:\ drive and CD drive power up after a shutdown
After a shutdown everything powers down fan and monitor turn off and then the A:\ drive and CD drive start to power up. It is like the system is restarting but doesn't.
I have current virus protection and all files are up-to-date for windows and I can't seem to find any info anywhere about this being related to anything.
I'm running Windows XP Home
Anyone here have an idea?
jmwills
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April 21st, 2006 01:00
LadyLacina
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April 21st, 2006 10:00
No it does not make logical sense that is why I am posting looking for suggestions!
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April 21st, 2006 14:00
LadyLacina
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April 21st, 2006 15:00
OK I will attempt to be very specific as to what is happening as looking at my first post I really didn't convey it
The whole system shuts down....everything goes completely quiet everything is powered off and then about 5 seconds after the complete shutdown the lights on the front of the computer for the drives flash on and the drives spin up (in normal boot sequence) and then the system stops quiets down.
Normally this flash of lights only happens once but last night on 1 shutdown it actually flashed and gurgled 11 times exactly the same sequence of lights and hardware.
It is like it is attempting a restart but doesn't. The system starts up fine after and I've run several scans and nothing seems out of place.
I have no idea if this is hardware or software driven but it is driving me nuts!