Help with ACPI and APM...

[Steelo]

my problem is driving me insane... i have an abit kt7 raid mobo athlon 1ghz t'bird and maxtor diamondmax hdd ... i am experiencing corruption of the os each time i boot. I have disabled acpi in the bios after hacking the bios to enable the disable acpi feature. Now i have installed a fresh win2k install and the corruption has now stopped. my only problem now, is that when i shutdown the machine does not actually power off, and instead i have to manually switch the machine off adter i get the "windows is not safe to switch off" message. I understand that i should be able to enable apm in the power applet in control panel to allow the machine to switch off itself. However, i dont get the apm tab in the control panel / power applet. Does anyone know why i dont or how i can get it back?

Thanks for your help

Steelo

 

[Rigoletto]

I have had mucho pain in the arse with power management. If you've disabled power management in the BIOS I don't know what you expect Win2000 to do about that. I myself found I couldn't get hibernate to work unless I used Win2K on the last partition as NTFS. The help files seem to say uninstall and reinstall as always. You could try looking at devices by connection, removing the board (!) and letting it reinstall everything all over again but I think even that won't work. Once the OS decides these power things ain't suitable you have to know a lot to get power management back... give you a bump anyway.

 

[jdparsons]

You might try searching the registry for "PowerdownAfterShutdown" and changing its value from '0' to '1'. It seems like that worked for me once on my BH6 motherboard

 

[joeryu]

look in the win2k tips and tricks thread, the solution is in there.