changing from acpi pc to a standard driver.

[Alex Marchevskiy]

I dont know why, but whenever I shutdown, instead of
powering off, my computer will restart. My helpful cousin
who answers a question and then vanishes into thin air,
said that i should try to revert from an ACPI driver to a
Standard Pc. So, now, i dont know how, since he left out
that piece of information. So, i turn to all of u guys.
Does ANYBODY know how to either change the driver, or
something better.

computer enviorment:

Msi 645e max series motherboard.
Celeron 2.2 ghz.
256 mb ram, pc 2700.

thanx.

 

[Andre]

Hey Alex,
Do this
1. Open your registry and find the key below.
2. Create a new string value, or modify the existing
value, called PowerdownAfterShutdown and set it to "1" to
power off the computer at shutdown, or "0" to reboot. To
create a new value go to Edit menu choose New and then
Dword value.
3. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

Registry Settings :
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
Value Name: PowerdownAfterShutdown
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = power down)

It will surely work....enjoy!!!!

"Andre" Abhishek Parashar

"where there is a pundit, there is a way"

 

[Alex Nichol]

I dont know why, but whenever I shutdown, instead of
powering off, my computer will restart. My helpful cousin
who answers a question and then vanishes into thin air,
said that i should try to revert from an ACPI driver to a
Standard Pc. So, now, i dont know how, since he left out
that piece of information. So, i turn to all of u guys.
Does ANYBODY know how to either change the driver, or
something better.

I would not do that immediately. You have something that is crashing on
being asked to close - and the system's 'automatically restart' is
cutting in. Turn this off: in Control Panel - System - Advanced, click
Settings in the Startup and Recovery section. There uncheck
'automatically restart'. You may now get a Blue screen failure
instead, but at least will get some guidance as to what is happening