Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot Monday, January 24, 2005 at 10:36 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Wacey (2 messages posted) Hi All. I am using a ACPI compliant W2K system and when my potential user hits the power button a quick and effective emergency shutdown is initiated (as detailed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297150) . Now every 10 or so reboots, a PCI plug and play card is not recognised by the system and the Add New Hardware wizard automatically starts. When the PC is shutdown the PCI card is being used and the driver is ticking along nicely. So.... Can I 1) Disable the Emergency shutdown functionality of W2K so that it defaults to the normal shutdown procedure. 2) Force the system to recognise that at PCI slot whatever the card really is the card that I know is in there and driver X should be used. 3)Find some other way to overcome this issue. Thanks for your help in advance. Adam. Responses to this message: re: Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot (DEX: Monday, January 24, 2005 at 1:07 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot (Adam Wacey: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 10:36 am) re: Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot (DEX: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 1:07 pm) re: Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot (Adam Wacey: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 4:25 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum