re: Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot
Monday, January 24, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
Adam
One or two Long Shots..
It sound like the drivers for the pci card are not the right ones..real close but
not right on..
You can Disable the Emergency shutdown functionality BUT you may get a BSOD (lockup)
it's like taking out the light bulb from the OIL light in car, it's trying to tell
you something..
Do you have a spare pci card around, so you can pop in and give it a try out ?, the
card may be going bad who knows..or it can't hold the IRQ from win2k so when win2k
reboots it finds new hardware and runs the wizard...to set it up with a new IRQ setting
or the same one.you can also try to reset it up in the Device Mrg./Hardware and change
the IRQ setting if win2k will let you and you have free one..
You may also want to try a new slot it may help..
Good Luck
On Monday, January 24, 2005 at 10:36 am, Adam Wacey wrote:
>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.
> r
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