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Shut down problems after installing Win2K...
Hi
I have a Gateway P111 which was originally loaded with Win98 SE. A couple of days back, I changed the HD and loaded it with Win2K. Now, on exiting Win2K, I am brought to a screen that says, "It is safe to shut down...", and I then have to press the switch to totally shut it down. In my previous Win98 HD, it just shut down without this message. Why is this so? Is there anyway I can have my Win2k HD shut down without going through this message dialog. TIA |
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There may be a bios setting on the mb to set for auto shut down from the
OS. -- Jan Alter or "XXX" wrote in message ... Hi I have a Gateway P111 which was originally loaded with Win98 SE. A couple of days back, I changed the HD and loaded it with Win2K. Now, on exiting Win2K, I am brought to a screen that says, "It is safe to shut down...", and I then have to press the switch to totally shut it down. In my previous Win98 HD, it just shut down without this message. Why is this so? Is there anyway I can have my Win2k HD shut down without going through this message dialog. TIA |
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Thank You...
"Jan Alter" wrote in message ... There may be a bios setting on the mb to set for auto shut down from the OS. -- Jan Alter or "XXX" wrote in message ... Hi I have a Gateway P111 which was originally loaded with Win98 SE. A couple of days back, I changed the HD and loaded it with Win2K. Now, on exiting Win2K, I am brought to a screen that says, "It is safe to shut down...", and I then have to press the switch to totally shut it down. In my previous Win98 HD, it just shut down without this message. Why is this so? Is there anyway I can have my Win2k HD shut down without going through this message dialog. TIA |
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Windows 2000 and XP will behave this way if the bios is not completely ACPI
compliant. If you look in device manager under 'computer' you will likely see 'standard pc' or something to that effect. It should say 'acpi uniprocessor pc'. Sometimes there is a setting in the bios for this and sometimes there is not. A bios update to the latest version might fix it, although you may have to reinstall Windows 2000. "XXX" wrote in message ... Hi I have a Gateway P111 which was originally loaded with Win98 SE. A couple of days back, I changed the HD and loaded it with Win2K. Now, on exiting Win2K, I am brought to a screen that says, "It is safe to shut down...", and I then have to press the switch to totally shut it down. In my previous Win98 HD, it just shut down without this message. Why is this so? Is there anyway I can have my Win2k HD shut down without going through this message dialog. TIA |
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Thank you, I have been fooling with the BIOS settings and it is shutting
down faster. Regards "Tweek" wrote in message ... Windows 2000 and XP will behave this way if the bios is not completely ACPI compliant. If you look in device manager under 'computer' you will likely see 'standard pc' or something to that effect. It should say 'acpi uniprocessor pc'. Sometimes there is a setting in the bios for this and sometimes there is not. A bios update to the latest version might fix it, although you may have to reinstall Windows 2000. "XXX" wrote in message ... Hi I have a Gateway P111 which was originally loaded with Win98 SE. A couple of days back, I changed the HD and loaded it with Win2K. Now, on exiting Win2K, I am brought to a screen that says, "It is safe to shut down...", and I then have to press the switch to totally shut it down. In my previous Win98 HD, it just shut down without this message. Why is this so? Is there anyway I can have my Win2k HD shut down without going through this message dialog. TIA |
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