Just installed windows 2k and the PC won't shut down

[HiTek21]

I just installed my old copy of windows 2k on my moms pc which is an NEC Z1 Pentium 3 450mhz w/ 128mb of ram. I figure its better than Windows 98 and ME so I gave it a shot, Everything works great in 2k but when it comes time to shut down it takes forever then as soon as everything gets ready to shut off it prompts me with "You may now shut down your PC" the hard drive powers down and goes to like a suspend mode but it says that message. Now its not an AT PSU its has an ATX power supply and never did this in windows 98.

When I looked at the system settings it says it was running an x86 processor with stepping 3 or something. Is that computer just so old that it can't support windows 2k? Should I just go back and install windows 98?

 

[grunjee]

Sounds like ACPI. Maybe check out the BIOS to see if it's supported. If it is, you might have to reinstall Windows again though for it to take effect.

 

[AndyHui]

You have a system that is not ACPI compliant.

In order to get Windows 2000 to do a "soft shutdown", you need to enable Advanced Power Management.

To enable it, go to Control Panel, Power Options, APM tab, check Enable APM.

You probably have a Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 processor. Don't worry about it. It will work with Windows 2000 without any problems.

 

[Rob G.]

To get 'round the shutdown issue:

Go to Device Manager (right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager).

Once it's open, click on View on the toolbar and enable 'Show Hidden Devices'. You'll now see some new Device entries

Go down and open up NT Apm/Legacy Support. Right click on the subentry NT/Apm/Legacy Interface Node and select enable.

You should now find that your shutdown works as required.