My birthday came around a while little while ago, and I desided to treat myself to a system overhaul. I'll list the specs before I get into the problem:

Gigaybte GA-7VRXP
512mb DDR 2100
ATI Radion 9000 Pro 128mb DDR
30 Gig WD HD 7200rpm (where Win XP Pro is installed)
Raid(0) Stripe 20gig (Programs 'n Such)
AMD 1700+ XP w/ Dr. Thermal 5200rpm
......Hey I'm not rich, but its a screamer

Here is the problem. The computer will not shut down. After the first install if XP, I promptly went to MS Updates and got all the updates I wanted. Left out the .Net crap, and a few other fluff ones. At this point I assumed I had the reset switch or power switch reversed on the Board. Said "eh well" and prommised myself I'd get to it later. Kinda dreaded going back in so soon, as I had done the wire and cable origomy inside the box with zip ties for airflow. *Shrug*

But it was driving me nuts that every time I attempted to shut down the computer, it just restarted instead. So I opened it up and dubble checked the pinouts. Nope, everything is correct.

Also, after completeing all said MS Updates, my new machine went from resetting in a few seconds, to taking aprox. 3 minuts to reset, and thats just the powering down aspect.

So after searching and searching, I could not find anything related to this. I even swaped out the board with a friend in town who had the same model. Same thing. Though he does not have the problem when running his system.

So, frustrated, I reinstalled XP Pro. Shut down fine & completely, and damn fast too. Reset just fine as well, didnt seem to get the two confused anymore. Thought it was just one of those freak things and whent about my way....to installing MS Updates.

Back to not stutting down, just resetting again, and doing an incredibly slow job of it as well again. With the system taking 3+ minuts to cycle down for a reset, and having almost 40+ MS Updates installed, I'm loathe to attempt to uninstall all of them, as XP demands a restart after each uninstall. Just to try to find the one causeing this.

If anyone had any ideas, please post.
Thanx guys(& girls).