Topic: Win 2k shutdown glitch?
started by: Bandit
Posted by Bandit on Apr. 11 2001,16:09
i have win2k pro installed on my p3 550 pc, 256 mb, riva tnt2 card, blah blah blah. When i had win98 installed it would shutdown and turn off my machine...now that i installed win2k it will shutdown but will not turn it off.
Ive checked bios and i made sure it knows about power management in the OS. I cant find the preferences in win2k control panel or anywhere.
Is this supposed to happen? Is the preference hidden somewhere or is it so blatantly obvious that i cant find it?
Thanks,
bandit
Posted by Rhydant on Apr. 12 2001,00:44
how cares if it doenst shut off automatically? its still better than win98. thats all that matters.------------------
...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted by Vigilante on Apr. 12 2001,02:02
Mine says, "MPS Uniprocessor PC" 
I wish it would shut itself off, too. Otherwise I have to hold the fuckin power button in for 6 seconds to cut the power. I hate that shit (and no, there's no switch behind the power supply).
Posted by Observer on Apr. 12 2001,04:34
I believe you can change the 6-second power button thing in the BIOS, usually under the Power Management section, so that it turns off right when you hit it.------------------
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Posted by ASCIIMan on Apr. 12 2001,05:01
Okay... AFAIK this is caused by Win2k setting up your computer as a "Standard PC" rather than an "ACPI PC". You can check by getting into the device manager (right-click "My Computer", click "Properties", click the "Hardware" tab, then click "Device Manager"). Click the plus next to "Computer and see what type computer it says you have. If it says "Standard PC", this is probably the cause of it's inability to automagically turn off your computer by itself. Don't change it to ACPI, though. Speaking from my own experience, Win2k support for the "ACPI" mode is iffy, at best. Trust me. Bad things start to happen. All your PCI devices get set to the same IRQ (11). Stuff conficts. Graphics lock up without warning. BSODs appear without apparent cause. Please, if you set up Win2k, set your BIOS to "no Plug-n-Play support" and "no ACPI support". You'll be happy later. I'm an idiot and always forget to do this. And don't ever try to change computer types from "Standard" to "ACPI", or vice-versa... Even worse things can happen because the internal device tree representations are completely different, and half the time you won't even be able to boot into system recovery mode. (Damn, it looks like I'm ranting... I guess I am. But I'm pissed at M$ for including the "ACPI" computer type when it sux0rs so much...) Well, anyways, if your computer is set up as "ACPI" in the Device Manager, it should be shutting off by itself so something else is probably messed up.