My puter never shuts down all the way.

[Nocturnal]

Specs:

ASUS A7N266-E nForce motherboard with on-board everything

CPU: AMD T-Bird 1.4 GHZ 266FSB

RAM: Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM

HDD: IBM 60GXP 60 GIG HDD

VIDEO CARD: Visiontek Geforce 3 (Regular version)

CASE: Enlight 7237

PSU: Enlight 300W PSU

CDRW: Plextor 24x10x40x

DVD: Pioneer Slot Load 16x DVD

OS: Windows XP Pro

Now, whenever I try to shut down my computer it'll get to the shut down screen but it will never turn the computer off. I've done formats, I've downloaded updates, nothing ever helps this problem. Can anyone tell me what MIGHT be the cause of this? It doesn't really bother me all that much, but than again it does!

 

[RoodyPooGangsta]

I'd imagine there's a setting in your BIOS that would affect this. Try looking up your mobo docs or just going into your BIOS and see if anything jumps out at you.

 

[boyRacer]

I don't think it's enabled on your computer... try your power management settings...

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: RoodyPooGangsta
I'd imagine there's a setting in your BIOS that would affect this. Try looking up your mobo docs or just going into your BIOS and see if anything jumps out at you.

Where is the power management settings?

 

[RoodyPooGangsta]

In XP Pro go to start > control panel > power options. Look under the advanced tab. If you set these the way you want and it's still not shutting down then check your BIOS.

 

[Nocturnal]

What would I be setting it to?

 

[RoodyPooGangsta]

After clicking the Advanced tab, look in the bottom half of the window. It'll say 'when I press the power button on my computer'. You choose Shut Down.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: RoodyPooGangsta
After clicking the Advanced tab, look in the bottom half of the window. It'll say 'when I press the power button on my computer'. You choose Shut Down.

Did it work?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR

Originally posted by: RoodyPooGangsta
After clicking the Advanced tab, look in the bottom half of the window. It'll say 'when I press the power button on my computer'. You choose Shut Down.

Did it work?

Nope.

 

[minendo]

Enable ACPI in your BIOS.

 

[Dulanic]

No dont enable ACPI, if it wasnt enabled when he installed the OS it wont boot once he installs it. Go into control panel, power options, APM tab, and enable APM.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Dulanic
No dont enable ACPI, if it wasnt enabled when he installed the OS it wont boot once he installs it. Go into control panel, power options, APM tab, and enable APM.

Never had that problem in the many times I've enabled and disabled ACPI.

 

[RickH]

I agree with Dulanic!!!! You will have a dead machine if you enable it now. You maybe able to rescue it--maybe. You need to go to the BIOS and enable it, then install the OS. I always check that the machine will auto shut down just after I install the OS. R

 

[dionx]

what kind of network card do you have? physically take it out and try without it. ive had problems shutdown/restarts with my asus board and a netgear card. it all went away when i bought linksys.

EDIT: unless you use the onboard LAN. then i guess my suggestion wouldnt apply