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re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically'
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 7:41 pm
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Posted by Jack E. Femon (1 messages posted)

Here is my case:

My W2k fails to POWERDOWN after SHUTDOWN clicked or PWR button pressed directly. 
This problem happened since I reinstalled (not new installation) W2k due to booting 
failure from swapping motherboard.  

I am sure this can't be hardware issue because I did W2k New installation on another 
harddrive and it works just fine. Shutdown and then Powerdown. 

I've done all possible solutions I can find including changing BIOS setting, Removing 
[ACPI Fixed Feature Button], [Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System],...etc. And problem 
just remains.

Any help?

On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 9:23 am, John Goodin wrote:

>I've been recently having problems with my XP home machine all of a sudden simply 

>shutting off the power. This after the computer has been running 10 min reguardless 

>if I've been using the mouse etc. I don't even get any error messages from Windows 

>of a "Crital Error" then restarting.

>

>To try and troubleshoot I've did the following.

>(1) Checked that the main case and CPU fans are running.

>(2) Started the PC and let it set at BIOS setup for 30 min.

>(3) Started the PC and with a blank formatted in drive A: and let it set 30 min.

>

>No power off during (2) and (3) so this rules out the problem being in hardware 
or 

>BIOS Correct?

>

>(4) Started the PC and let it set at the logon screen. Power just shut off in 10 

>min all by itself. This would seem to reflect a problem in Windows Core install 
would 

>it not?

>

>I checked BIOS and Windows power management before I did any testing and the only 

>thing set to turn off is the monitor after 30 min in Windows PM.

>

>Is there a way via a Reg patch to overright all of the PM settings back to Factory 

>defaults?

>Or is this a known issue there is already a fix for?

>

>I remember a tool in Windows that could check all your key files for corruption 
but 

>don't remember where it is. That may be my problem also.

Written in response to:: re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (John Goodin: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 9:23 am)

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'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Jim: Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 9:03 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (nick: Fri, Feb 14, 2003, 7:45 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Larry: Mon, Jun 23, 2003, 7:21 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Patrick Babb: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 7:21 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Mike: Mon, Jul 14, 2003, 12:06 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Franz: Thu, Dec 4, 2003, 9:32 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (chuck: Tue, Dec 21, 2004, 12:46 pm)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Jason: Tue, Feb 15, 2005, 2:35 pm)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (whocares: Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 12:52 pm)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (John Goodin: Wed, Jul 5, 2006, 9:23 am)

re: 'Have Windows NOT Power Down Your Computer Automatically' (Jack E. Femon: Tue, Jul 11, 2006, 7:41 pm)

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