COMPAQ Presario 5640 : Windows2000 shutdown problem ?

Hello again,

I have some problems when shutting my computer down using windows2000.
The problem is, when I want to shut it down, it ends up with the screen
saying "It is now safe to turn your computer off". It does NOT turn
itself off completely like Windows98 did which I had before. Now, I have
to push the button on the front to turn it off, but then it reboots
after about 30 minutes. It is similar to when the computer hung in
windows98 and I would hold the front ON/OFF button down for 15 secs.
Then it would restart after about 30 minutes. To completely turn it off,
with Windows2000, I have to flip the powerswitch on the backside of the
computer. This procedure is very annoying to me. How can I get Windows
2000 to shut the computer off COMPLETELY when I choose the option "Shut
down" ? I know Microsoft had problems with their shutdown functionality
in Windows98 and I suspect this is something similar. Probably it is
easy to fix. I just wonder if anyone has any good idea of what I need to
do to get it to shutdown completely using this otherwise excellent
Windows2000 (compared to Windows98). By the way, when I installed
Windows2000 I did a clean install, by formatting the HD completely so
there are no traces of windows98 left.

Thanks in advance,

Mattias

P.S. If you decide to reply in mail, make sure you remove the "REMOVE"
out of my emailaddress. D.S.

Go into Control Panel. Bring up the Power Applet. On your machine there will
be an APM tab (your machine does not support ACPI, but does support APM).
There will be a checkbox on that tab to enable APM.

Your machine will now shut down properly.

I have no idea why this is not the default on Windows 2000, but it's not.

Tom
"Mattias Svensson" wrote in message
...
Hello again,

I have some problems when shutting my computer down using windows2000.
The problem is, when I want to shut it down, it ends up with the screen
saying "It is now safe to turn your computer off". It does NOT turn
itself off completely like Windows98 did which I had before. Now, I have
to push the button on the front to turn it off, but then it reboots
after about 30 minutes. It is similar to when the computer hung in
windows98 and I would hold the front ON/OFF button down for 15 secs.
Then it would restart after about 30 minutes. To completely turn it off,
with Windows2000, I have to flip the powerswitch on the backside of the
computer. This procedure is very annoying to me. How can I get Windows
2000 to shut the computer off COMPLETELY when I choose the option "Shut
down" ? I know Microsoft had problems with their shutdown functionality
in Windows98 and I suspect this is something similar. Probably it is
easy to fix. I just wonder if anyone has any good idea of what I need to
do to get it to shutdown completely using this otherwise excellent
Windows2000 (compared to Windows98). By the way, when I installed
Windows2000 I did a clean install, by formatting the HD completely so
there are no traces of windows98 left.

Thanks in advance,

Mattias

P.S. If you decide to reply in mail, make sure you remove the "REMOVE"
out of my emailaddress. D.S.

Similar, accomplishes the same thing. Right Click "My Computer"
Choose properties. Click on "Hardware" tab and then "Device Manager"
Click on "view" and "show hidden devices". You will see APM with a
red X over it, right click on it and choose "enable".


"Tom Scales" wrote in message ...
Go into Control Panel. Bring up the Power Applet. On your machine there will
be an APM tab (your machine does not support ACPI, but does support APM).
There will be a checkbox on that tab to enable APM.

Your machine will now shut down properly.

I have no idea why this is not the default on Windows 2000, but it's not.


It only does this on AT style machines with the extra Power switch
connector.

Thank you very much Tom. I got it to work properly now. It shuts itself
of completely now.

// Mattias

Tom Scales wrote:
Go into Control Panel. Bring up the Power Applet. On your machine there will
be an APM tab (your machine does not support ACPI, but does support APM).
There will be a checkbox on that tab to enable APM.

Your machine will now shut down properly.

I have no idea why this is not the default on Windows 2000, but it's not.

Tom
"Mattias Svensson" wrote in message
...

Hello again,

I have some problems when shutting my computer down using windows2000.
The problem is, when I want to shut it down, it ends up with the screen
saying "It is now safe to turn your computer off". It does NOT turn
itself off completely like Windows98 did which I had before. Now, I have
to push the button on the front to turn it off, but then it reboots
after about 30 minutes. It is similar to when the computer hung in
windows98 and I would hold the front ON/OFF button down for 15 secs.
Then it would restart after about 30 minutes. To completely turn it off,
with Windows2000, I have to flip the powerswitch on the backside of the
computer. This procedure is very annoying to me. How can I get Windows
2000 to shut the computer off COMPLETELY when I choose the option "Shut
down" ? I know Microsoft had problems with their shutdown functionality
in Windows98 and I suspect this is something similar. Probably it is
easy to fix. I just wonder if anyone has any good idea of what I need to
do to get it to shutdown completely using this otherwise excellent
Windows2000 (compared to Windows98). By the way, when I installed
Windows2000 I did a clean install, by formatting the HD completely so
there are no traces of windows98 left.

Thanks in advance,

Mattias

P.S. If you decide to reply in mail, make sure you remove the "REMOVE"
out of my emailaddress. D.S.

Hello !

the yeti wrote:

Similar, accomplishes the same thing. Right Click "My Computer"
Choose properties. Click on "Hardware" tab and then "Device Manager"
Click on "view" and "show hidden devices". You will see APM with a
red X over it, right click on it and choose "enable".


Thanks, this is actually the alternative I used to get it to work.
Although I checked if it "unchecked" the option in the dialogbox Tom
described.

Cheers,

Mattias

Glad to be of help!

Tom
"Mattias Svensson" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much Tom. I got it to work properly now. It shuts itself
of completely now.

// Mattias

Tom Scales wrote:
Go into Control Panel. Bring up the Power Applet. On your machine there
will
be an APM tab (your machine does not support ACPI, but does support
APM).
There will be a checkbox on that tab to enable APM.

Your machine will now shut down properly.

I have no idea why this is not the default on Windows 2000, but it's
not.

Tom
"Mattias Svensson" wrote in
message
...

Hello again,

I have some problems when shutting my computer down using windows2000.
The problem is, when I want to shut it down, it ends up with the screen
saying "It is now safe to turn your computer off". It does NOT turn
itself off completely like Windows98 did which I had before. Now, I have
to push the button on the front to turn it off, but then it reboots
after about 30 minutes. It is similar to when the computer hung in
windows98 and I would hold the front ON/OFF button down for 15 secs.
Then it would restart after about 30 minutes. To completely turn it off,
with Windows2000, I have to flip the powerswitch on the backside of the
computer. This procedure is very annoying to me. How can I get Windows
2000 to shut the computer off COMPLETELY when I choose the option "Shut
down" ? I know Microsoft had problems with their shutdown functionality
in Windows98 and I suspect this is something similar. Probably it is
easy to fix. I just wonder if anyone has any good idea of what I need to
do to get it to shutdown completely using this otherwise excellent
Windows2000 (compared to Windows98). By the way, when I installed
Windows2000 I did a clean install, by formatting the HD completely so
there are no traces of windows98 left.

Thanks in advance,

Mattias

P.S. If you decide to reply in mail, make sure you remove the "REMOVE"
out of my emailaddress. D.S.