re: Windows Start and Turn off problems
Saturday, December 8, 2001 at 3:51 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Doug Benz
(2 messages posted)
On Saturday, December 8, 2001 at 3:44 pm, Doug Benz wrote:
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>On Monday, November 26, 2001 at 4:40 am, George wrote:
>Had similar problem with restarting automatically on shutdown. The culprit turned
>out ot be Direct CD 5.
>When I shut down I get the message "Now safe to turn off your computer" and have
>to press the case power button to turn off. I don't have the problem if I boot to
>ME (Dual boot setup with XP)
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>On Sunday, November 25, 2001 at 8:19 pm, Leon Mucha wrote:
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>My system has these components (all new):
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>Gigabyte 7XDR main board
>Athlon XP 1700+ processor
>512 MEG 2100 DDR RAM
>Windows XP Professional
>Office XP Professional
>Norton Antivirus 2002
>U.S. Robotics Performance Pro Modem model 3CP5610A
>XTASY video accelerator 5564
>400 watt power supply
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>I have several problems;
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>1) The Windows XP Pro takes about five minutes to boot up. It is also slow shutting
>down, but not that slow. I find no variable that will change this.
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>2) With the U.S. Robotics modem installed, the system will not turn off. If I go
>through the start button to turn off through Windows or if I push the power button
>on the case, the same thing happens. It will go through the process of shutting
>off, but at the completion of the turn off process, the system automatically commences
>the start process and re-starts. The only way to turn it off is to pull the power
>cord or turn off the power at the surge protector. Then the modem is removed from
>the main board, the system will turn off OK. Windows XP will not accept the drivers
>on the modem CD as better than the default Windows XP drivers. The U.S. Robotics
>support site does not list drivers for Windows XP for this modem. I have tried
>two
>different, new modems and have tried three different PCI slots on the main board
>with the same result.
>
>3) When I go through the start button and try the stand by option, Windows shuts
>down, but the fans in the computer case continue to run. I do not know if that
>is
>how it is supposed to work or not.
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>I tried solving per suggestion in this forum to change your system properties and
>un-check the "Automatically re-start" tab (Control Panel -> System -> Advanced,
>then
>click on the Start-up and Recovery Settings button) but system still re-started
>automatically
>when I tried to turn off through start button.
>
>Thanks in advance for assistance in solving these issues.
>
Had the same problems with my system: Athlon 1900+
Gigabyte GA7DXR Motherboard
Visiontek GeForce3 TI/500 graphics card
USRobotics Performance Pro internal modem
SoundBlaster Live sound card
512MB memory
Windows XP Home Edition
With modem installed, upon boot up, Installation Wizard recognized modem but couldn't
find drivers for this modem! Ran modem Installation CD and went to 'My Computer',
clicked D Drive, open, and opened folder with WIN2000 drivers. Wizard recognized
the drivers and modem and installation went well from there.
Had the same problem with system rebooting everytime I shut down computer from Start
Menu. Called tech support for my computer and this worked:
Reboot computer and hit delete key when prompted to go to CMOS settings.
Go to Power Management.
Disable that + all items in CMOS with WAKE UP in title.
Depress F10 key, Y (for yes to save changes) and reboot. That seemed to take care
of the reboot problem.
Hope this helps.
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