How can I get rid of this message, and get the computer to turn off like normal???? It worked fine before I formated, now it gives me this message and I have to turn via the power button. Thanks!
"It is now safe to turn off your computer" STOP!!!!
- Thread starter Necrosaro420
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Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like his computer doesn't have ACPI or it isn't enabled in the BIOS.
It worked great/perfect before I formatted...I did have to "load factory defaults" in my bios when I formatted.
The only ACPI I found was to switch it from S1 to S3...neither of them work, and I looked over each section several times.....?
In the Win98 days you'd sometimes just have to remove the device listing for ACPI & when it reloads on reboot, it would properly shut itself off.
yeah ACPI drivers for the mobo are probably not installed or now broken.
i had an old board that required a driver to make power control work correctly.
it was an old hp p4-1.3, no drivers it would not be able to power itself off.
i had an old board that required a driver to make power control work correctly.
it was an old hp p4-1.3, no drivers it would not be able to power itself off.
What 3rd party software did you install post-reformatting? I ask because I have seen several that cause this behavior. One of them was "Windows Washer". It was configured to clean out cache, temp files, etc. at shutdown. Somehow, it caused the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" message. Removing the program did the trick. I have seen another program do this, but the name escapes me.
Yup, looks like windows thinks he has a "standard pc' opposed to an ACPI enabled one.. Go into device manager OP and go under system devices and under "computer"...
What do I do there? Im under the "System Devices" tab/+
Also, It DID ask me when I installed (it never has before) If this is a standard pc, or a something else, I forget.
Is there a way to install the ACPI stuff? Thanks!@
Look online for guides on fixing this, IIRC you either can't fix it w/o reinstalling windows or doing a lot of work arounds that aren't easy..
Ummm just a question...is the computer an ATX system or an old AT system?
If it is an ATX system the problem will be the ACPI driver.
If it is an AT system, well umm they never supported ACPI at all so you have to use the power button to shut it down, just like in the old days of win 3.11/win95 on 486 and early Pentium systems.
If it is an ATX system the problem will be the ACPI driver.
If it is an AT system, well umm they never supported ACPI at all so you have to use the power button to shut it down, just like in the old days of win 3.11/win95 on 486 and early Pentium systems.
I dont think you will find a AT system that will run winxp
oops he never listed version of windows.
I have K6-2's and K6-3's that run WinXP fine...all are AT system using GA-5AA and P5A-B AT mobo's, both systems have 256mb of ram and are quite responsive for word processing/internet duties, even some older games like Q3 and UT acheive frame rate faster than 30FPS when used with a GF2MX @1024x768x32.
If you don't have many PCI cards (as standard PC doesn't work so well with shared IRQs), you might be able to get away with standard PC and enabling APM:
Desktop properties -> screen saver tab -> monitor power settings button -> APM tab -> tick check box
If you don't have an APM tab, then you may need to enable APM in the bios setup.
Desktop properties -> screen saver tab -> monitor power settings button -> APM tab -> tick check box
If you don't have an APM tab, then you may need to enable APM in the bios setup.
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