re: Using the power off button leads to an emergency shutdown and occasionaly the loss of a device at reboot Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 4:25 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Wacey (2 messages posted) Thanks Dex, I'll give em all a go. Adam. On Monday, January 24, 2005 at 1:07 pm, DEX wrote: >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 > > Written in response to: 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) There are presently no replies to this message. 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