wont power down

[stephen crawford]

re other posts....havnt got to the bottom of this really..
wont power down since upgrade to xp , have to push power button after
message" its now safe to turn off your computer" ...i have no APM tab in
power options in the control panel, motherboard says its acpi compliant..
and thers no mention of any legacy acpi in device manager only the via tech
power manager controller which reports ok
regards steve

 

[Rich Barry]

Steve, check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
Select S and scroll to Shutdown.

 

[stephen crawford]

thanks tried all reg hacks and tweaku1 ect still wont power off auto may
have to try to change hal driver

 

[Alex Nichol]

re other posts....havnt got to the bottom of this really..
wont power down since upgrade to xp , have to push power button after
message" its now safe to turn off your computer" ...i have no APM tab in
power options in the control panel, motherboard says its acpi compliant..
and thers no mention of any legacy acpi in device manager only the via tech
power manager controller which reports ok

Sounds as if it has decided to install ACPI, but in fact is not talking
to the BIOS correctly. Only thing I can suggest (and it is probably not
worth it) is a repair reinstall. In that after first reboot there is a
black screen with 'Hit F6 to install special drivers'. If you hit F7
instead, nothing will appear to happen, but it will install APM (in
disabled state) instead of ACPI. That is not really much loss, and you
will have the APM page available to turn it on.

 

[stephen crawford]

Hi tried all of that still wont power down even with tweakui set to power
down after shut down ect...
trying gigabyte now keep going over same things .

 

[Leonard J Kocksman]

I have the same problem, and I also have the gigabyte mobo. I posted the
problem here a few months ago and stumped all of the guru's except one...
who said to hit F5 when the Xp setup screen says to hit F6, then select
an ACPI choice (I picked ACPI Multiprocessor, because my mobo is that).
Then go ahead and finish XP setup and all is well. This should be possible
thru a repair install, I just don't know how it's done.

None of the shutdown fixes will solve the problem because your Windows
is shutting down okay, the hang occurs because the power supply does not
shut down after Windows has shut down. That occurs because XP with
SP2 does not permit XP to recognize that the mobo is ACPI compliant.
That's a shame because it worked just fine with SP1. Gigabyte's answer to
me was "use SP1 and not SP2".