automatic shutdown lost

bangkok · 11th January 2002

I recently upgraded my OS from Win 98se to W2K. The upgrade went fine and everything is working great, except. . .

I lost the automatic shutdown feature. Now I get the screen that tells me its O.K. to shut down my computer, but I have to kill the power manually. Is there some way to get back auto shutdown?

I am running a 500 MHz Pent III, on an ABIT motherboard, 515MB memory, 10 Gig HD, ATI Rage video.

Thanks for any help.

obenton · 11th January 2002

If you're not using ACPI HAL, you want to enable APM.

desertbluesman · 12th January 2002

Hope this helps

During setup, Windows 2000 will detect if your BIOS supports ACPI or not. If you decided to leave ACPI disabled, you may want to enable APM (Advanced Power Management) after the system is installed, so that the system can switch off the system after shutdown. You can do so at Control Panel > Power Options, in the APM tab.

Dave G.

Alex Ethridge · 17th January 2002

I'm not the original poster; but, I have the same problem on a Windows 2000 machine.

desertbluesman, your suggestion worked for me--to a point, except now, it reboots instead of shutting down.

Any suggestions?

desertbluesman · 17th January 2002

Sorry, I am not a windows expert, I just suggested above because I know a little bit about that for Audio recording. I needed to shut off ACPI because of the IRQ issues. I use four multimedia cards for recording, so I needed to control the IRQ assignments, once I fixed that, I never delved further in to Win 2k, It ain't broke, so I ain't fixing it. I hope you get an answer.
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bangkok · 23rd January 2002

Thanks to obenton and desertbluesman for the suggestions.

I reset the bios ACPI to enable and the enabled APM in Control Panel. Results - works great!!

Thanks again.