ventiman

yes i have all wake options off. Fact to me the noticeable key difference in a normal operation of the laptop is when it first starts all you see is the simple DELL post logo,, When its acting up like this. This Dell DirectMedia post logo shows up instead. And I have to take the battery out. Or other wise it will just run it down. It behaves this way if on battery or AC

Seems I have a Dell e1505 laptop that will not power off. Sure it goes through the shutdown cycle but in 5 seconds or less. Its powering right back on and booting up. It has the latest bios update. Now the system seems to do this off and on.. For two months latop worked well. Then out of the blue this power issue.. Then seem to fix it self and now back again with . Ive noticed that when the system is having this issue..This MediaDirect bootup logo shows up. And when the system is working normally There is no such logo. Just the regular bios post screen