Windows 2003 reboots on shutdown - Start, Shutdown

[Boe]

Hello,

I have a Windows R2 X64 SP2 server.

When I click on Start, shutdown and tell it to shutdown - NOT reboot, it
still reboots. All my other servers just shutdown but this one always
reboots. I haven't tried a DOS command yet to shut it down but I'd like to
fix whatever is causing it to reboot during a normal shutdown.

Any guesses?

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Try this command: shutdown -s -f. Does that work?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OQFxGE80HHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Hello,

I have a Windows R2 X64 SP2 server.

When I click on Start, shutdown and tell it to shutdown - NOT reboot, it
still reboots. All my other servers just shutdown but this one always
reboots. I haven't tried a DOS command yet to shut it down but I'd like to
fix whatever is causing it to reboot during a normal shutdown.

Any guesses?

 

[Boe]

Thanks - I haven't tried that yet - I'm trying to avoid the DOS command for now and figure out why the standard method isn't working. I saw a thread about this same thing a while back but since I wasn't having the problem at the time I didn't take note.
"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" <noreply@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OurI5vE1HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Try this command: shutdown -s -f. Does that work?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OQFxGE80HHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Hello,

I have a Windows R2 X64 SP2 server.

When I click on Start, shutdown and tell it to shutdown - NOT reboot, it
still reboots. All my other servers just shutdown but this one always
reboots. I haven't tried a DOS command yet to shut it down but I'd like to
fix whatever is causing it to reboot during a normal shutdown.

Any guesses?