something triggers a reboot after every shutdown

[Patrick Asselman]

 On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:55:40 -0500, Albert Wagner wrote:
> I'm guessing that it's hardware, but I really don't know. Does anyone
> know how I would go about troubleshooting this?  I know next to
> nothing about hardware. The machine is a Dell 2400 with a newly
> installed GeForce 8400 GS,  running 11.04.

 It could be a setting in the bios, auto restart after power failure?
 Though really it shouldn't do this after a shutdown. You are doing a 
 "sudo shutdhown -P" I presume?

 Best regards,
 Patrick Asselman