power management problem, help needed

[CanisEstInVia]

Under power management, I have only the option to turn off my monitor after desired minutes. There is no option to turn off my HD or put my system on standby. I checked in BIOS and I have "user defined" for power management. Is there something I can do to get those options? Btw, this happened as soon as my system was up an running, not because of any OS upgrade or anything.

 

[subman]

You did not mention which operating system... from what you mention it does not seem that ACPI power management has been installed in your system. When installing Win98 or WinME you can force ACPI by using the following command when installing these OS's.

SETUP /P /J


Or if you can handle the registry try this.....

run Regedit and go to the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Detect

Create a new string value called "ACPIOption" and set it equal to 1. In Control Panel, run Add New Hardware and choose hardware detection. ACPI should be detected and installed. After the system is rebooted, all ACPI-enumerated devices will be set up again.