Odd Shut Down Behavior

I just did a fresh install of win98SE for a friend and got all the drivers loaded and all seems fine with one oddity. When I shutdown all goes well and it completes a shutdown, however, the NUM Lock light on the keyboard remains lit! Screen is dead, tower fans and drives are all stopped, just the one light remains. The switch on the power supply does shut this light off but other then that all seems well. I have also noticed there CMOS battery must be going becausewhen I do power down the power supply and then restart it needs to go through setup again. Is this related to the light staying on or is something else amiss?

WIN 98SE
PII 400 MHZ
128 mb ram
sorry all I know about this unit

check power management settings and replace the cmos battery if you have one handy.

When you press the 'off' button you are only stopping new power coming into your system.

If you want it off, unplug or use the switch. My guess is that there's still enough juice in the tank to run that little LED for a while (they have amazingly low power consumption).

As for having to re-run setup (of the bios? I guess...), that does sound like a flat cmos battery, it may be indicative of a faulty charging circuit, but you want Ruslan to answer that one..:D

Are you sure its actually closing down & not going into some mad standby state? A lot of boards support all fans off in sleep mode, now, and they usually have some indicator method to differentiate that from off, usually this is a flashing LED on the case, but I have seen it indicated via num-lock flashing...

OK guys the re-setting the CMOS was the result of jumpers not placed correctly. I still have the num lock light remaining though and no, it is not asleep.

In the bios settings, do you have wake on keyboard enabled?

Chances are that in the BIOS setup, there is an option to "power on" the system using a keyboard key or combination of keys instead of pushing the power button every time you want to turn on the computer. Depending on how old the system is.... BIOS will let you disable this feature but will not stop the the light. Remember that an ATX power supply still has power running through it as long as it is pluged in. That is why there is a small on/off switch on the back of the ATX power supply.

My system does the same thing. My solution?

As they say in Jersey.....
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