re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)'
Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 9:57 pm
Posted by Steve B
(395 messages posted)
I'm guessing some software isn't shutting down. Maybe a driver or a program. I'd
suspect things like the anti-virus program, new hardware driver, trojan horse or
a virus.
Maybe inspecting the event log would give a clue.
On Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 9:39 am, Matt wrote:
>I have a question about Dealing
>with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM):
>
>For the past week or so I've noticed my computer doesn't shut itself off after I've
>done a shut down. It also doesn't reboot when I want it to. In both cases it will
>tell me that Windows is shutting down after a couple seconds the screen goes black.
>After that I either have to hold in the power button to shut it off or I have to
>hit the reset button to reboot. I've checked my BIOS and my "PM Controlled by APM"
>is Enabled and my APM is checked on my Power Options. Am I missing something or
should
>I throw my computer out in front of the next semi to drive by?
>
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