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Monday, February 10, 2003 at 12:57 am
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Posted by Martin (2 messages posted)

I solved this problem a long time ago. After applying the latest bios revision for my motherboard, I reinstalled Windows XP and it detected my PC as an ACPI compliant machine which is what it should have done from the start. No more APM, and no more shut down problems.

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 4:50 pm, Yoav wrote:
>i have the same problem, i tried everything you did.
>i searched the microsoft site and got to this article:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320008
>It might apply to you.
>
>please write a reply if you try it
>
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (tigs: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 4:50 pm)

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Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Martin: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 5:51 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Wayne: Fri, Mar 15, 2002, 1:18 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (HC: Fri, Mar 15, 2002, 1:52 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (W.J.Livingstone: Sat, Mar 16, 2002, 4:12 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (HC: Sat, Mar 16, 2002, 8:47 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Denzil: Mon, Mar 18, 2002, 5:44 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Mike: Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 3:10 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Eric: Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 10:18 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dardo : Fri, Apr 26, 2002, 12:09 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dardo : Fri, Apr 26, 2002, 12:14 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Vlad: Mon, May 20, 2002, 4:45 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (MrBlack: Mon, Jun 24, 2002, 12:48 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Dave M: Sat, Jul 6, 2002, 12:01 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Ian Lund: Mon, Dec 9, 2002, 5:01 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (OpenSourceBoy: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 11:44 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (jwever: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 1:17 pm)

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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (marc: Thu, Jan 26, 2006, 3:18 pm)

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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (tigs: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 4:50 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Martin: Mon, Feb 10, 2003, 12:57 am)

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