LED stays on even when laptop is shutdown

Hi there!
Newbie here!

I have an Sony laptop and when I shut it down I cant turn it back on unless I take out battery and reinsert it. The LED for power stays on until the battery is taken out. I can restart the laptop with no hassle, the problem only occur s if I shut it down and come back and try to turn it on. Other than this problem the laptop seems to be working fine

Configuration: Windows XP

Sony Viao PCG-GR370......old I know ....I love it .

 

Try leaving the battery out and just using the ac adapter?

cheers ...

 

Thanks for answering.
I did leave the battery out , but does the same thing. I don't know if it's windows or the laptop itself that has the problem . I tried to shut it down through the bios , it worked fine , shutdown with no issues, it's only when i shut it down from windows the problem occurs.

 

Let me try to recap.

If you leave the battery out, you'd need to go into BIOS to shut the machine down before the next restart? Correct?

You might want to give this a try: disable the “restart on system failure” option in System->Advanced of your control panel.

Last but not least - is your XP up to date?

cheers ...

 

My XP is very up to date ....with or without the battery in , there's an option in the bios to shutdown. when I select it . it shutsdown with no problem.But through windows the power light stays on and i can't turn it on .I have to remove the power cable and the battery to have the power light to go off first then I can power it back on.

 

Tried this also already?

The reason for it is that I am making a wild guess that you are having some issues that causes the comp to "restart" and hang, during the shutdown process.

cheers ...