WinXP pro ?
 

I know this isnt the right place for this, but this is about all I hang out in. So ill ask who I know.


My windows xp PRO will not shut off anymore. It will shut down but I have to manually hold in the power button to kill the power.

I have loaded the defualt bios settings and it still does it. Is there a file or a setting that I am just overlooking to make it shut off? not having it shut off means I have to turn the PC when I am not home.

* makes signs of a cross and puts on his garlic necklace *

XP - yuck! LOL

All the power functions controlled by the OS are managed through the ACPI interface. So that would be where you could look from the OS side of things.

Most m/bs also have power down features in the BIOS settings that are usually independent of the OS. They are usually listed under a menu heading called "Power" on the BIOS settings screen for Award based BIOSes (the "Power" menu being a selection along the top of the screen, along with "Main", "Advanced", and "Boot").

Did you install anything new? or this came up just all of a sudden?

hmm, XP is satan -- your situation proves this

--MAtt

if you have the option in your bios to change "shutdown method" and the selections are soft off and instant off, try it set to instant my bios sets it to soft by default and sometimes that will cause me to no shut down. Do you get the "its safe to shutdown you computer now" message? Or does it just hang?

Yeah it tells me that it is safe to turn off the computer.

yeah that was the same thing i got. Also make sure in control panel the under "power options" that it is set to "always on" for computer role. In your bios make sure the power management in set to user define, and standby mode is disabled.

emc2 is on the right track.

turn on apm/acpi

all windows installs are lame... sometimes mine automatically shut down.. and an install later they dont.. with NO hardware changes.

there are some registry keys.. something like "shutdownautomatically" or something... i forget

just do a search for shutdown and see what comes up. when you see something about shutting down automatically change is 1/0 value to the opposite and see what that gets you.

it seems that every MS OS suffers from this oddity.

do they ever....

Whipped this up in 5min
 

Originally:ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: Space Oddity



Ground control to Bill & Steve
Ground control to Bill & Steve
Push that power switch
And turn your stopwatch on

10
Ground control to Bill & Steve
9 - 8 - 7 - 6
Commencing POSTing, harddrives on
5 - 4 - 3 - 2
Check the keyboard
1
And may God's love be with you
Boot up

This is ground control to Bill & Steve
You've really screwed the pooch
And the people want to know
Why such bloatwear
Now it's time to launch the OS
If you dare

This is Bill & Steve to ground control
We're slipping through the code
And we're leaking in the most peculiar way
And the desktp's very different today

For here
We are sitting with a web
Far above outside world
Planet Earth is doomed
And there's something we should do

Though we've past 100,000 files
It's selling very well
And we think the market knows
Which way to go
Tell Linus Thank you very much
He knows

Ground control to Bill & Steve
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me Bill & Steve
Can you hear me Bill & Steve
Can you hear me Bill & Steve
Can you hear

For here
We are sitting with a web
Far above outside world
Planet Earth is doomed
And there's something we should do

If you are making it to that point, the problem often is caused by a "misbehaving" program or service you've added that isn't closing down properly/completely. What have you installed since it worked Fixitt?


Gogo - roflmao! :D

heh, I love that song parody

gotta luv people who have one bad experience with a program (probably cause they dont know how to use it) and they bash it...the best ones are the ones who post crap like xp is satan and xp sucks....with no other info as to the problem......get a life and then get a clue xp is the best winodwz os out there right above 2k...if u say 98 or me is best then u havent ever yexplored either of the programs.....full of flaws and erros (not sayin xp isnt it just doesnt have nearly as many, plus the ones it does have come from new programs that havent had extensive testing....ok enough of that....

btw the answer has been given, it lies with the acpi settings....if u cant figure out what u did...just do a softinstall or try a repair of the os....softinstall = not wiping the hd just writing right over what u have....saves programs and crap...........

What I wanna know is this....

How many people, who said they hate Microsoft or that XP is satan.... Run microsoft products.... yeah... 99% of you do...

Thanks Brad

Fixitt, I had the same thing happen once. As was said (somewhere:) ) make sure you didn't change any setting, install any programs etc. Check the bios power mgmt setting. Lastly, let us know what the culprit actually was. Some of us are curious.



Heh, I'm in bed with satan.


nice smooth sheets:D

been tracking it down, but still have no solution.

Will bust a soft install tomarrow.

I did however find a trojan on my PC, but that wasnt causing the problem

y u putting condoms on ur comp??? says insert DISK not DI*Kthe letter after b before d (dont want joe having a heartattack)

he isn't 'properly equipped' to use a trojan, he settles for a miniture horse.

/me ducks

seriously though, I hate winxp, win95, winme. they all suck. I LOVE win2k and dos. win98se is usable. winme and winxp are the worst though. both are designed for stupid dell buyers who want to connect to the internet and share gay pictures with their gay friends called steve

Horse or rabbit?

wouldn't worry too much about the rabbit:)

Well if that is true Brad, what are all the ghey useres gonna use for an OS when Dell closes its doors in the near future?

What, you take some exlax bro? :evilaugh:

* runs *


Haddy - since I said "XP - yuck"...

I have both a life and a quite a bit more than "a clue", and I never base views on singular experiences or without extensive digging :) As far as billy-boy and his wares - when I use his products it's for 2 reasons only : my work requires use of certain windows based programs - in which case I use NT4 or W2K depending on the program , and , for games or browsing (in the latter case because my work setups don't touch the internet except thru a VPN) - in which case I use W9x. You really don't want my true full view on XP :) And we won't even touch ME. But hey, if you love XP and think it's the best, go for it - we all have to live with our own choices :D

has been a great upgrade for me. After about 5 years the win 9x GUI just got old. So the XP interface is a nice visual change. preformance wise, I took a big hit in benchmarks. But I dont run a power machine. My games all still work, and there are very few programs that will not run in my XP install, so im happy. Now if I could just get the F`n thing to shut off after shut down




LONG LIVE WIN 3.11

haha win 1.0 rules u all!

I'm sorry, you are incorrect. XP is VERY inferior to Windows 2000 in just about every way.

The XP kernel benchmarked 15% slower than the win2k kernel.

Try not to be so high and mighty when you don't really know the facts.

pics? i would love to c this.... and xp is more shall we say "user friendly" the 2k is/was...also it depends on what benchmarks ur talking about and when they where done....alots changed sense xp came out (drivers, hardware, user know how) so unless these benches are from the last 2 months or so they dont ever count....i in know way ment to sound high and mighty i wuz just posting that people luv to complain about products when they had one bad experience....its true i may have been a lil "mean" but i just came off the [h]ard boards so i wuz still in flame mode....

btw i will start a new thread just bout xp problems (http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/sho...&threadid=2815), i wanna hear it all....btw if linux had more game support i would say fu bill, the birds got u beat....

Well i think I fixed all my XP problems. Man did more problems pop up in the last day or 2.


Anyways here are the steps to fix any XP problem, when you are just fed up with it.

#1 copy all imporant data to different drive.
#2 insert boot disk w/cd rom driver.
#3 FDISK the FU@K outta the drive.
#4 install win 98 or win 2k
#5 copy data back to drive

Well, I had some serious issues with XP at the beginning, but never with APM. It used to crash on a regular basis when it used the included drivers for my Radeon 8500 card. It took me a couple hours to get it stabilized trying to beat the crash to install the right combination of drivers to get the thing stable (without gaming).

When I got it to boot to a stable state without touching a game, I thought I was golden, and dropped my games down on it. The damn OS kept crashing no matter which driver combination. I tried all of the following:

AGP 4x/2x, fast writes and write combining off
Tried every single driver for my video card (the correct way)
Fail safe settings in the bios
Disabled all extra interfaces: USB, parallel, serial.
Ripped out the Sblive due to reports of the 686b via southbridge/sblive issue
Tried different memory timing settings
Tried replacing the memory stick
Tried a new PSU
Tried a new mobo (which use different chipsets),
Tried a few bios revisions on both boards.
Tried many AGP drive values
UNDERCLOCKED my video card

It used to croak by blacking out and rebooting, and then later on, I'd get the infinite loop crash. Well, everything worked fine on 98SE, so tossed that POS XP out the window and dropped 98SE back down on my machine, put the latest drivers down on it with AGP fast writes off, and everything was rock solid.

What have I concluded? I loved the new XP features with the built in firewall, not as many security holes if you let it lock itself down, and the stability it could offer if you didnt want to 3d game with one of the latest accelerators (previous generation cards were fine). I really don't like 98SE, but its good for what I want to do.... GAMING. I can actually enjoy crash free gamging on 98SE. XP sucks ass for gaming compared to 98SE IMO.

With all of this said, I still have to say that I LIKE Microsoft operating systems. I have run most of their OS lineup over the years from dos(an IBM rip), win3.1, 3.11, 95, 95osr2, 98, 98SE, NT 3.5(1), NT4, Win2k pro, win2k AS, MSTS with metaframe and winframe, and XP.

Microsoft brings an acceptable degree of compatibility and useability to the table that no other OS can offer. Yes, I'm aware that it may not be the most stable platform (depends on a number of things), but it is by far the most useable. Its popularity fuels developement for it. You can find almost anything you want for the windows platform these days, and even my mom can use windows and click on an icon to run a program. Why people hate Microsoft is beyond me. People have choices, and the right to exercise them. If you dont like windows, the ease of use, the amount of development for it, and the somewhat limited interface (from a tweaking standpoint), then run something else and have fun trying to find the programs you want to run on it. For those who say that Windows is not the platform for a serious user, I say bull$h1t. It's a matter of what you need to do and what a product has to offer to help you do whatever that is.

Sometimes I wish that something like Linux would become as popular and supported and developed for as Windows so that I can change my OS. I like the amount of control you have over it. That amount of control is and probably never will be available in Windows. Unfortunately, at the moment, its not a viable choice for me. There isn't enough developement for it (gaming specifically) for it to be something I would run. I LOVE the tweakability it offers, but short of using it to run a server, I wouldn't drop it on my desktop.


Oh well, I figured I would share a few blurbs with you regarding this.

bahh, I have to work with XP everyday, it is so frustrating setting up people's computers, it has a ****ing wizard for everything, that wastes 5 minutes trying to disable it. I wish there was an option in the control panels somewhere 'make windows treat me like someone above the age of 5'

could be worse...we could be @ like dos 2002