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My Win 2k doesen't powerdown ! It restarts only.
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Make sure you have APM selected in Control Panel under Power Options.
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92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO!
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this doesn't help !!! It also doesn't help, if I change in the registry the word powerdown from 0 -----> 1
what is your motherboard?
ASUS P5A, with newest BIOS (16.01.2000) !
well... i've got the same prob w/ my Abit BH-6 [rev1.0 bios FU] and i DISabled(!) ACPI in BIOS. That did the job...dunno if that helps with you
how should I do this in my Bios ??????
First you will need to make sure that Win2k isn't installed in acpi mode (check device manager/computer and it probably says Standard PC - that is okay). Then restart your computer and when the initial screen comes up (detecting hard drives, etc...), either press <del> or F2 and that will get your bios utility started. Under Power Management there should be an option related to ACPI - you can disable that. I don't think that is going to make much difference, though, but it is worth a try.
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My Bios didn't have the switch ACPI on/off? What should I do ?
Then your mobo isn't acpi compliant and switching off acpi is obviously not the solution to your problem. I would hit up the asus newsgroup and post a question in there, or see if the issue has already been addressed.
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I have a similar problem... The reboot/shutdown functions lock up. The Standby/Hibernate functions just reboot my machine instantly. After several hours of testing, I traced the problem down to winDVD. The funny thing is that everything works fine before I install winDVD... so maybe the next version will fix this problem... other than that problem Windows 2000 runs very stable... (I've keep my comptuer up for 2 weeks now of normal use)...
