jleinen

Windows 2000 will not shutdown. I have an atx case with Abit BE6 m/b with latest bios update. Just a tnt2ultra installed. Win2K will not completely shutdown. It will write to the disk then give me a "its safe to shut down screen". Then I have to shut down by turning off power supply. It should shut down power on its own with the atx power supply. This same setup works fine with Win98 or ME. I'm stumped. I have installed Win2K 3 times and it still will not work right. Anyone have any ideas. omeone please help.

M4Carbine could you please give me a better detail on how to get to set this APM. I know I can get the computer to shutdown manually by changing the power button option. But I am talking about doing an automatic shutdown thru software. Could you please be more specific. I am fairly new to Win2K. Always have had dual boot Win98/NT before. Some of this stuff throws me for a loop. I would appreciate some help. Thanks

Also if there is any problems you have with the ACPI enabled from a fresh install of Win2K then install Sevice Pack 2. It helped resolve the ACPI issues I had. It WILL eliminate the slow downs. I ran Quake3 demos with ACPI enabled and disabled. Not any measurable difference to worry about.

I have just been thru a bout with the ACPI setting you are talking about. If you have Win2K alreday installed with the ACPI setting enabled in the BIOS don't disable it. Chances are you will CORRUPT the OS. You can though disable it through software by going to the devices manager and selecting the computer and then select Adavnced Configuration and Power (ACPI),select update driver,select show all listed and select standard computer. Then shutdown and restart and no more ACPI. But I have found out with out it a lot of peripheals will not shut off or shut down properly and ATX cases may not shut down properly. Now if you have already installed Win2K without having enabled ACPI you will never get Win2K to recogonize it. The only way to get it to work on Win2K is to enable ACPI in the Power Management portion of the BIOS and do a fresh install of Win2K. Then Win2K will see it and install it during the install. Then if you want it disabled you can disable it thru the device manager like I explained. Now another thing is that if you have a new M/B like my Abit KT-7A it is enabled by default and their is no way to turn it off unless you use an illegit BIOS. This is something that the M/B Mfg's are doing to make the M/B's Microsoft compliant. By the way kgeissler started me on to this path of seeking knowledge of the ACPI. Hope this helps.

Thanks kgeissler that helped me out quite a bit. I went and checked on VIA Hardware.com at Pauls FAQ's and there was some similar information there. You were right about the BIOS setting. But I did have to enable ACPI and THEN reinstall Windows 2000 fresh. If ACPI isn't enabled when you install Windows 2000 it will never recogonize the ACPI even if you go back after the install and enable it in the BIOS. And if you do install Windows 2000 with the ACPI enabled in the bios and go back after the install and disable it, that will corrupt the system. Anyway just thought I would add this info to what I learned from you. A lot of bright people in this forum. I love it. Thanks again.

Could possibly be a defective video card. Been there done that. Try another video card if you have one laying around. If it works right more than likely the Geforce card is DOA.