Shutdown

I've recently upgraded a friend's PC from WinME to XP. All working fine -
no problems.

When I shutdown the computer XP announces "it is now safe to turn of your
computer" - and then I have to switch off manually. When they had ME
installed, the system used to switch off automatically. Why does this not
happen under XP?

The mainboard is an old Gigabyte 7ZX (KT133 chipset). I have flashed the
BIOS to make sure it is up to date.

I have had a look at the system and can't find any settings to change to
make the machine shut down properly. I suppose it may be that the machine
doesn't have ACPI or whatever it needs.....but my machine at home certainly
does and even here I can't find settings to change shut down behaviour.
There is nothing relevent in Control Panel - Power Options on either their
PC or mine.

Any help appreciated

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 11:38:27 +0100, In this world we created "Tim
Sullivan" wrote :

I've recently upgraded a friend's PC from WinME to XP. All working fine -
no problems.

When I shutdown the computer XP announces "it is now safe to turn of your
computer" - and then I have to switch off manually. When they had ME
installed, the system used to switch off automatically. Why does this not
happen under XP?

The mainboard is an old Gigabyte 7ZX (KT133 chipset). I have flashed the
BIOS to make sure it is up to date.

I have had a look at the system and can't find any settings to change to
make the machine shut down properly. I suppose it may be that the machine
doesn't have ACPI or whatever it needs.....but my machine at home certainly
does and even here I can't find settings to change shut down behaviour.
There is nothing relevent in Control Panel - Power Options on either their
PC or mine.

Any help appreciated


Make sure ACPI is enabled in the BIOS and that there is an ACPI driver
installed in the System section of the Device Manager.



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Sounds like it installed in APM mode, but you have to enable APM in the
power management options in Control panel to get the automatic shutdown to
happen. APM tab.

John S.

"Tim Sullivan" wrote in message
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I've recently upgraded a friend's PC from WinME to XP. All working fine -
no problems.

When I shutdown the computer XP announces "it is now safe to turn of your
computer" - and then I have to switch off manually. When they had ME
installed, the system used to switch off automatically. Why does this not
happen under XP?

The mainboard is an old Gigabyte 7ZX (KT133 chipset). I have flashed the
BIOS to make sure it is up to date.

I have had a look at the system and can't find any settings to change to
make the machine shut down properly. I suppose it may be that the machine
doesn't have ACPI or whatever it needs.....but my machine at home
certainly
does and even here I can't find settings to change shut down behaviour.
There is nothing relevent in Control Panel - Power Options on either their
PC or mine.

Any help appreciated

To get the PC to turn off when Shutdown as been selected.

Start
Control Panel
Power options
APM
Tick "Enable Advanced Power Management support"
apply