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  1. August 6th, 2002, 11:07 AM #1
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    Question Win2k SP3 Problem??

    We recently received five new machines from Dell. Two of them we have set up and installed SP3 on. These are the only two machines in the plant that have SP3 installed. Now there is the (possible) problem. Neither of these machines will completely shut down any more. It comes to the "It is now safe to shut your machine off." message and there it sits. Both machines have ATX boards and out of the box w/out SP2 or SP3 machines shut down completely. Has anyone else out there had the same or similar problem after installing SP3?? If so give me a shout!
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  2. August 6th, 2002, 11:15 AM #2
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    Try this key

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\PowerdownAfterShutdown

    should be 1
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  3. August 6th, 2002, 11:57 AM #3
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    key value = 1

    One thing I noticed, however, is that the monitor shuts down for about a second, power led goes off, then comes back on with the shutdown message.

    Of course there is always the sure fix.....
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  4. August 6th, 2002, 12:01 PM #4
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    I have been running it for several days now with no issues. I have a couple others here that have agreed to help me out by doing so. So far, so good!

    Machines running it so far: Dell Inspiron 5000 and 7500.

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  5. August 7th, 2002, 03:18 PM #5
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    What models of Dells? I want to make sure that I will have no problem updateing any of my Dells here.


    I am more concerned with my Dell Servers. If anyone has had luck with updgradeing a Poweredge please post it. I want to make sure the upgrade to sp3 will run smoothly.
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  6. August 8th, 2002, 10:27 AM #6
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    They are Optiples GX260's. Don't fear buying these however. They are good systems; the problem was installing the OS and software off of an somewhat older ghost image from Corporate.
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  7. August 9th, 2002, 08:25 AM #7
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    SP3 may have reset the NT APM/Legacy Interface Node in the hidden devices section of Device Manager. Try enabling this option and the machine should shut down fine after that.
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  8. August 9th, 2002, 08:44 AM #8
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    Problem Solved

    I was able to figure out the fix yesterday morning. Thanks for all the help. The problem was not caused by SP3. It was a configuration conflict between the new machines and the machine on which the image was taken. Once again, thanks for all the help!
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  9. August 9th, 2002, 05:38 PM #9
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    screw sp3, its just a load of crap.
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  10. August 10th, 2002, 12:49 AM #10
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    glad u sorted it Akuma ,, sp3 is in itself correct for the majority of "boxes" but seems to be getting screwed up , when it encounters something "silly" like an old rpomise card ,,,,

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  11. August 10th, 2002, 05:36 AM #11
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    SP 3, is running fine on my work pc
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  12. August 10th, 2002, 10:45 AM #12
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    I installed it almost a week ago, and so far have not had any problems. I have a Gateway PII 450 at home. Two co-workers have also installed it. They did not mention any problems, so I assume it is working well.
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