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Automatic Shutdown

okay i have 2 machines with Windows 2000 professional. When I go to start>shutdown. The message comes up "What would you like to do" I choose "Shutdown" and I can walk away my machine is now turning off automatically. But my other machine when doing the same steps. I still have to click on the power button on the hard drive to shutdown.
"It is now safe to turn off your computer." Why does it do it one and not the other.
How can I change it so I don't have to physically have to turn it off.

YarnoSG

ACPI Bios-

The machines are likely different vintages. Motherboards manufactured before 1998 are likely not to be ACPI compliant. If that is not the difference, the machine that is not shutting down probably does not have its ACPI Bios driver correctly installed, or the BIOS itself needs to be updated.

HTH

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bigphuckinglizard

you could try going to the computer object in device manager and changing the driver to "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC". but only if your motherboard supports it and the case is that windows hasn't picked up on that.

Hendro

lobos

In the registry go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, WindowsNT, CurrentVersion and on Winlogon you will see the option:
"PowerdownAfterShutdown" change the value to 0

Fallenswordsman

Go to Control Panel > Power Options - If you have a tab that says "APM" go to that, then click on the "Support APM or whatever the thing says (can't remember off the top of my head) - there's only one checkbox so you can't get it wrong - then you should be able to power down properly.

lobos

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Hendro,
I tried your idea and it did not work.

Fallenswordsman
Your gonna have to be more specific about the tab and the checkbox.

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lobos

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This did the trick. Thanks. :)