XP - When I shut down it says "it is now safe to shut off your computer"

[crawford]

Like the title says, when I shut down it says "It is now safe to shut off your computer" instead of just shutting down. Anyone know how to make it not say that and just shut down ?

 

[robisc]

Check your power options properties in control panel, try to turn power schemes to "always on" if it already set at that option just try another setting until it shuts down.

 

[crawford]

Thanks a lot, ill go try that.

 

[DeschutesCore]

If that does not work, please make sure APM is enabled in BIOS and ACPI is available on your motherboard. Windows XP is very protective of the hibernate / shutdown options when it fails to see a compliant ACPI implementation.

DC

 

[SemperFi]

I did a fresh install of xp last weekend and had the same problem. The apm in device manager was disabled. I re-enabled it and it shut down fine after that.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: robisc
Check your power options properties in control panel, try to turn power schemes to "always on" if it already set at that option just try another setting until it shuts down.

I don't think you read the post correctly, XP is stopping at the 'safe to turn off your computer screen'. As the other posts said, make sure your system was detected as ACPI.

Bill

 

[crawford]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: robisc
Check your power options properties in control panel, try to turn power schemes to "always on" if it already set at that option just try another setting until it shuts down.

I don't think you read the post correctly, XP is stopping at the 'safe to turn off your computer screen'. As the other posts said, make sure your system was detected as ACPI.

Bill

Hey yea so far I havent fixed it, how would I go about making sure about the ACPI ? Thanks a lot, the problem is a pain in the butt.

 

[bsobel]

First make sure you have the latest bios for the mother board. Also, you can check if there are any options in there that enable/disable acpi and make sure they are enabled.

You may need to reinstall (on top) to get XP to properly detect the new acpi bios (presuming it's an update you need)

Bill

 

[crawford]

Thanks man, Ill try.

 

[erikiksaz]

If it's on in the motherboard, go into control panel --> power schemes or options (something like that) -- > APM tab --- > turn on the Enable option

 

[robisc]

I don't think you read the post correctly, XP is stopping at the 'safe to turn off your computer screen'. As the other posts said, make sure your system was detected as ACPI.

No doubt I did read the post correctly, as I said in my original post the Power management options are typically "in my experience" the reason that the PC won't actually shutdown and it just sits at the the screen waiting for the user to manually turn it off, on some systems the power options need to be turned and on some they may need to be turned off, there are APM options in the BIOS too just as has already been posted here, but I would try Windows first it as it has worked for me on 95% of systems that have had this problem that I do the sys admin on.

 

[crawford]

Originally posted by: erikiksaz
If it's on in the motherboard, go into control panel --> power schemes or options (something like that) -- > APM tab --- > turn on the Enable option

THANKS MAN! That worked, and it was easy as hell too! Thanks a lot, it was such a pain.

 

[crawford]

Originally posted by: robisc

I don't think you read the post correctly, XP is stopping at the 'safe to turn off your computer screen'. As the other posts said, make sure your system was detected as ACPI.

No doubt I did read the post correctly, as I said in my original post the Power management options are typically "in my experience" the reason that the PC won't actually shutdown and it just sits at the the screen waiting for the user to manually turn it off, on some systems the power options need to be turned and on some they may need to be turned off, there are APM options in the BIOS too just as has already been posted here, but I would try Windows first it as it has worked for me on 95% of systems that have had this problem that I do the sys admin on.

Hey thanks to you too, it was what you said and then what erikiksaz said that got it to work.

 

[wiin]

where is the APM Tab in Xp? No APM Tab under Power Option in my Xp.

 

[robisc]

where is the APM Tab in Xp? No APM Tab under Power Option in my Xp.

Link

It is all under Power Options in XP, if it isn'lt there your PC or BIOS doesn't support it.