XP Shutdown

[Franklin Jones]

:D On my back up system I loaded xp up and this board is the tyan 1598 with a 400mhz amd with 128mb of ram. My problem is that it just goes to the "it is now safe to shutdown the system screen and then I have to power it down myself. I removed all cards except for the video.....I have updated the bios ....disabled the ram cache and still no automatic shutdown. I built a system the other day loaded xp up on it and bang auto shutdown...msi 6340m....I was wondering if there are any patches or some info that will help me ....... :cool: it ain't important but it bothers me that I can't get it to work.....Thanks for all Info

[rangeral]

Believe there's some setting in acpi in device manager that you need to change but escapes me now or enable. Check power management in bios as well.

Think it was this

go to the Control Panel, then Power Options and then g0 to the APM (Advanced Power Management) tab. Enable APM make sure power management is enabled in bios.

[NDC]

Did you enable ACPI in the BIOS before installing XP? Go to Device Manager\System Devices and there should be an icon that says "Microsoft ACPI compliant system" if the correct HAL was installed...

You may also want to try the following:

1) Go to run and type: regedit
And then go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre
ntVersion\Explorer\ leanShutdown

2. Change the value from 0 to 1

3) Reboot the system to take effect of the new registry setting.