Its now safe to turn your computer off

[Furan]

Thats the message guys.
Had some Old RM Celeron 600's that I upgraded to 256mb RAM to run Win2000 on my Ranger Network - now the sods wont shut down - I have been all over the place looking for an answer - any ideas

Cheers

[mark]

I have some of those!!!

Tried upgrading the bios?

[Furan]

First thing I did! is RM an abbreviation of something rude?

[Geoff]

Usually a driver problem. Try upgrading your drivers too.

[Furan]

After the Bios flash - I went onto the RM site and downloaded every single driver to make sure that there were no 98 legacy stuff in the image - it only happens on that generation of PC as I had some OSIS ones from Capita so its got to be something common

Cheers

[mark]

...is RM an abbreviation of something rude?

lol! That was an early thread here Ripoff Merchants I think you'll find!!!

[Furan]

Im being Cynical Mark of course!!! Im an old sweaty techie well used to the world of RM but a newbie in here - looks like it could be fun

[Dos_Box]

Power management either in the BIOS or on your screen saver tab on display settings goto power options and its in there somewhere.

[mark]

That's not Cynicism - that's realism!!! [you darn quick on the reply there feller! ]

[Geoff]

Maybe ACPI is broken?

[ChrisH]

Maybe ACPI is broken?

If that is the case or for some reason it is off you may find that your new images will BSOD on loading if you turn it back on.

[Geoff]

no, it'll just fall back to APM. Ick.

[snowy37]

Power Down the Computer After Shutdown
This tweak sets the XP machine to power off completely rather than stop at the prompt advising users it's now safe to power off the machine.


[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: PowerdownAfterShutdown
Setting for Value Data: [0 = Disabled / 1 = Enabled]
Exit Registry and Reboot
Try this it worked for me

[Netman]

Tried this?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;810903
8)

[mattpant]

Hi

I just had the very same thing about a month ago when I upgraded a room to Windows XP.

Using Windows 98, the machines shutdown automatically, then after a clean Install of XP, they just went to the "Its now safe to turn your computer off" screen, I had to upgrade my Bios, BUT after the Bios had been brought upto date, I had to re-install Windows XP because it didn't have the correct Bios settings before, the correct Power Management Drivers and bits and bobs wern't present, after a Re-Install on the new Bios all was well.

I then just ghosted the machine with the correct settings, installed the Bios on the other machines and then copied the ghost image over

Regards,

Matt