re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 9:53 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6909 messages posted) The P5A even with the lastest BETA BIOS is not compatible with XP's ACPI spec. The board is to old. It installs with the Standard PC HAL as the BIOS and the hardware is not XP compatible. It will power down with Win 2000 with the BETA BIOS but not with XP. I have tried installing the ACPI HAL in XP and it will not work on a P5A board I have here. The PC will lock up. XP defaults to the standard PC HAL when it installs. Leave all BIOS settings at their defaults. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314088&Product=winxp On Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 9:43 am, Paul Bristow wrote: >I have a question about Dealing >with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM): > >I have just built my first PC, everything has gone well apart from when I shut down >I get the message that "it is safe to turn off your monitor" but on my other computer >it automatically shuts down. > >I have checked in the power options and under the advanced tab the "Power Buttons" >section is missing, >so I can not set the computer to shut down the PC (apart) from pressing the ON/OFF >button, does anybody have any idea how I can view the information. > >Checked BIOS under power management and changed from "user define" to "disable" but >this has no effect, the motherboard is a ASUS P5A Super7 (BIOS flashed to V1007A). > >I have looked in the Control Panel and selected APM (put a tick in the box) next >time I went in the tick is removed, will not stay selected, and still no power buttons >selection in the advance tab. > >In the BIOS I have the following options in the "Power Management" section: > >POWER MANAGEMENT: >1.User Define >2.Max Saving (alters PM Timers when selected) >3.Min Saving (alters PM Timers when selected) >4.Disable > >VIDEO OFF OPTION: >1. Always on >2. All Modes = OFF >3. Susp, Stby = OFF >4. Suspend = OFF > >VIDEO OFF METHOD >1. DPMS Reduce On >2. DPMS OFF >3. DPMS Suspend >4. DPMS Stand By >5. V/H Sync+Blank >6. Blank Screen > >I have tried toggling the above selections but this makes no difference to the power >settings in XP, >I can still NOT see the Power Buttons section which would enable the power off option >on shut down. > >Paul > > > > > > Written in response to: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Paul Bristow: Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 9:43 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Paul Bristow: Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 12:07 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Paul Bristow: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 9:43 am) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (C K: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 9:53 am) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Paul Bristow: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 12:07 pm) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (C K: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 12:20 pm) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Paul Bristow: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 6:17 am) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (C K: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 7:35 am) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Jared Felton: Wed, Dec 3, 2003, 10:03 pm) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (RC Notlim: Wed, Oct 27, 2004, 4:54 am) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Bob: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 12:25 pm) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Sharptooth: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 1:07 pm) 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 XP Discussion Forum