shutdown poweroff?

[Guest]

when i click 'TURNOFF,'my computer logs off but then my screen says 'its now
say to turn off your computer', so i then have to push the power button on my
case to turn it off, how can i get it to my computer to just turn off on its
own when i push 'TURNOFF'?

please help as its really annoying.

 

[Guest]

Go to Control Pannel -> Power Options andthen from the APM tab, just mark
that APM is in use and that's it. Hope this will help

 

[Guest]

apm tab? i have choice of;power schemes,adavanced,hibernate,ups, none have
this option in?

 

[R. McCarty]

If you don't have an APM, then your XP instance was installed with
a incorrect HAL or non-ACPI compliant BIOS. At XP install, BIOS
tells the installer if the computer is Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface compliant. This is a more modern implementation of power
savings and hardware configuration. Sometimes a BIOS firmware
flash will bring the computer into compliancy. Other times the PC is
just not going to work as an ACPI. In that case you have to manually
install the APM driver for the capability to appear in Power Options.
Both fixes suggested here are fairly complicated and shouldn't be done
without backups. It might help if you could post your PC vendor and
model # or the Motherboard and current BIOS firmware revision.

 

[Guest]

ive just checked my brothers computer and i dont have as many options in the
power options tab as him, how do i get them?

 

[NotMe]

Unless his machine is the same make/model as yours, it may not be possible.
Every vendor has their own implementation.
I would check with the vendor for the proper ACPI/APM software for your
particular machine.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

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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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

hmmm, well updated my bios,that didnt help, resorted to installing windows on
my old hard drive and now it works fine,i think its something to do with my
sata hard drive that i was using? got it as a backup drive now instead
,thanks for all your suggestions anyway,

rgds
andy