I Want the " It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen

[Guest]

Can anybaody help with this question..
We have Acpi pcs' and would like them to go to the "It is now safe to turn
off your computer" screen rather than Auto power off on shutdown.
Is this possible.


b.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

By definition, ACPI will always set to PC to power off. You would need to
change the definition int the Device Manager from

ACPI PC

to Standard PC. This may need to have XP re-installed.

 

[Guest]

Hi Yves ,
I tried that .. but unfortunatley when I did .. It created more problems
with the pc. We use a Dell gx280 3.2 ghz with onboard intel video.. After
switching to standard pc.. We have trouble with video .. isapnp dataport and
16 instance of motherboard resources in device manager. Is there no other way
to force xp pro to not power off at shutdown?

 

[Ghostrider]

Hi Yves ,
I tried that .. but unfortunatley when I did .. It created more problems
with the pc. We use a Dell gx280 3.2 ghz with onboard intel video.. After
switching to standard pc.. We have trouble with video .. isapnp dataport and
16 instance of motherboard resources in device manager. Is there no other way
to force xp pro to not power off at shutdown?

Might as well leave it alone. AFAIK, bioses and chipsets to most
motherboards sold over the past 2 to 3 years are APCI-tuned. Last
system that was built here that displayed this message was probably
an old Pentium-3 unit with the Intel 440BX chipset.

 

[MsOsWin]

Subject: Re: I Want the " It is now safe to turn off your computer"

screen

I want the "It is now safe to turn *on* your computer" screen

 

[Asher_N]

OK I have to ask.

Why do you want this?????

Might as well leave it alone. AFAIK, bioses and chipsets to most
motherboards sold over the past 2 to 3 years are APCI-tuned. Last
system that was built here that displayed this message was probably
an old Pentium-3 unit with the Intel 440BX chipset.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

You can customize the color of your watched messages to make them stand out.
On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Read tab, at the end of the
Highlight watched messages with the color line, select the color you want,
and then click OK.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Ghostrider]

OK I have to ask.

Why do you want this?????

Ask the OP? I would rather have the computer power off
on shutdown.

 

[Guest]

The reason is , we run 475 public access pc's where pc's are in locked
cabinets. Staff can get acces to the power button on the pc. Therefore we
would have them shutdown the pc to the "It is now safe to turn off your
computer" screen ,, then use an exposed power bar to power off (bios is set
to "last state" in power management so when u power bar on the pc comes on.

b.

 

[Guest]

Not sure you responded to the correct thread.

You can customize the color of your watched messages to make them stand out.
On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Read tab, at the end of the
Highlight watched messages with the color line, select the color you want,
and then click OK.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Asher_N]

=?Utf-8?B?WW9zZW1pdGUgU2Ft?= <[email protected]>
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I assume you mean 'staff has NO access to the power button'. Otherwise,
why can't they just use the power button. Also, have you looked at the
power on mouse/keyboard options in your BIOSs? That way you could shhut
down, and simply move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard to
repower. Do you plan to power off every night? Or is it because somebody
could go to start/shutdown during the day and you want an easy way to
reboot?

 

[Bob I]

Simple solution, leave Windows Shutdown as is. Set BIOS to "Start after
Power returns". In morning flip power strip OFF, count 2 and flip power
back on.

 

[Guest]

This is what I often do, as well.
Windows shuts down the computer, then you flip off the power strip
(turning off the monitor/speakers, etc.). Later, when you turn the power
strip back on, the computer starts up (if BIOS is set to always power up,
instead of "last state").

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Looks that way, doesn't it. I responded to the correct thread with the
wrong info.

I thought that I had pasted the contents from my post to you in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain

See if the looks more on track.

You can check the APM status of your Windows XP and later machine by
performing the following steps:

1. Open a Command Prompt.
2. Enter the command:

apmstat -v

Your computer will display its APM status. For example, when you type this
command on an ACPI-enabled machine, the command will return the following
result:

This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevant on this machine
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"It is Now Safe to Turn Off Your Computer" error message when you try to
shut down your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810903

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Thanks for the response .. Did not seem to work though..
I have 465 public access machines that we normally set to go down to that
screen then power off by power bar since the pc itself is in a locked
cabinet.

Anything else I can try?

b.

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[Guest]

if your running windows xp (might have to be pro, not sure) there is a command
hit start, run, and type this:
shutdown -s -t 01
this command shuts down your hard drive but not your computer. you may want
to make a batch file that executed this command and put a shortcut on the
dekstop to make it easier

 

[Asher_N]

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That is totally false. shutdown -s -t 01 will perform a shutdown anfter
a delay of 1 second.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply .. I thought u hit the nail on the head .. So i set the
bios(this is a Dell gx280) to ON . ther are three option in the bios
OFF = system does nothing if power fails
ON= system starts after AC power is restored
LAST= system returned to former state after ac recovery

We had been setting bios to LAST so this time I tried your suggestion of ON.
However .. when I do a complete shutdown (start, shutdown, Shutdown) the pc
powers off. I then shut off power strip whuch shuts off monitor and ac power
to pc. I then power on the power strip and the monitor comes on BUT THE PC
DOES NOT!
Am i doing something wrong?
Thanks again for the reply.

b.

 

[Les Herrman]

That is totally false. shutdown -s -t 01 will perform a shutdown anfter
a delay of 1 second.

True but on many systems the command will take you only to the its now
safe to shutdown screen and not actually shut the system power off.