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I have just upgraded from Win 98 to XP on an Advent machine with 450 PII and 128 RAM. Prior to upgrade my machine would power off automatically as part of the shut down procedure. Following upgrade however,it now has to be switched off manually at end of shut down procedure. I suspect that something in the BIOS has changed, and have had a look but cannot find anything that refers to shut down. How can I restore my automatic switch off?
Go to Control panel-power settings-advanced tab- and at the bottom you can select what you want your comp to do on shutdown.
enable acpi in the bios also.
Anyone noticed that you can hit the on/off button to shut down xp and windows still goes through its shutdown procedure before disconnecting?
I am running XP Professional on the machine which does not switch off automatically. I am also running XP Home on my other machine which does switch itself automatically when XP is shut down. In Control Panal/Power Options/Advanced as Danimal suggests there are no options at all for shut down on the XP Pro machine.
fishphone, go back a few msgs and read my thread titled ACPI
There is a tick box under power settings called "Enable APM" that worked fien for me.
Thanks everyone, it now switches off automatically.
Steve