Power Problems I moved my desktop to a new location and after setting it up, it keeps shutting down and turning on after logging in. I will log in and hit enter and it immediately shuts down and restarts. I have held down both the reset and power buttons for 1 minute each. Possibly the power cord assembly? Any comments/solutions greatly appreciated.

Not sure what you truly mean, but you need an install disc. It could be a CD / DVD, USB, or even a hard drive partition.

If you have problems logging into any website, you should contact support for the site. They are your best option for help.

It may be your memory sticks/cards. I had that problem and took it to the shop and all they did was move the memory sticks down 1 slot. the 1st slot was bad. This will take some detail of removing the skins on the desktop.
Hope this helps.
Dave

This problem is ongoing because you have it configured to sleep turn the sleep mode off. What it is doing is attempting to load drivers again and not saving to cache when in sleep mode you may have not enough storage allotted for the sleep mode to save information go and increase the storage memory to store the data so that when it sleeps it can store the data and wake up with your screen as it was when you left it.
Personally I do not use sleep mode never have, never will. It is nothing but a problem for me anyway. I always keep my machines running with the exception of a lap top. So my suggestion is turn sleep mode off. I also log out and then log back in same principal really. Or just close the machine totally power it down. Sleep mode was a wonderful concept along with shutting down hard discs etc. However you will often times be more into a hassle than just leaving it on or shutting it down. Less work for a computer is better just my humble opinion.
Last but not least, my last resort would be to re-install operating system again once I start getting to many things going wrong with my machines I do them over solving all sorts of problems that are behind the scenes that take hours sometimes to repair individually. This would be after you retrieve your lost files from the drive. John

We need the name of the preventing software

no i would concentrate on the date time issue than see if you have any more problems i wish you the best of luck and if it works out OK please give me a good vote

I assume you cannot log into your user account in Windows.
This is how to create a new user account to log in and to move your user files from the old account to the new one.
Start the computer and keep pressing F8 until startup menu appears. Use arrow keys to select "safe mode".
When windows appears, log on as Administrator.
Use Control Panel, Users and create a new user. Select Computer administrator type. Restart the computer and log on to the new user account. Then you will have to move all your data files:
Open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Documents and settings\[your old user account]
Select folders Desktop, Favorites and My Documents (this may appear as [User]'s documents) and copy or cut them. Go to c:\Documents and settings\[your new user account] and paste them here.
You will lose only the desktop picture and some windows settings.
After that you may delete the old user account from Control panel/Users

Hi there!

no need to panic. This is a safety feature with Windows. If you log-off the computer will normally ask you if you want to log-on again. This would NOT turn off the computer. If you want to shut-down the computer, simply push the power button on your CPU.. This will automatically shut the computer off.

....im hoping you could rate this as: FIXYA!
-levibit-

sounds like that when you did a restore one of the files did not load correctly try using your repair disk and that should fix it

Is it possible that you have changed the settings of what buttons do what on your system? E.g. you could have changed the power button to "switch user" instead of "shut down", to check this (in XP) go to "Power Options" (in Control Panel" and then click on the "Advanced tab" at the top, then select "Shut down" from the drop down menu at the bottom of the window.

If this is already set to shut down then maybe you could do a system restore in case another setting has been changed, restore it to before the PC started doing this.

Alternatively try actually choosing "Turn off Computer" from the Log On screen (press Ctrl + L to get to this screen, or choose switch user/log off). If you are using Vista I beleive that there is a shut-down option from the Log In Page there (which again you can access by pressing Ctrl + L on the keyboard.

Hope this helps!