My PC won't shut down anymore.

What o/s are you using? Win95, 98, me or other. Shut down problems are one of the easyest to solve once you know the o/s and it's perks. Run defrag and scan disk then clean out the temp directory.

A soft power off is using a setting in the OS. If this is 98 box run MS CONFIG program,
Start
Run
MSCONFIG

There should be some settings in there start will help you out.

Good Luck

There are 2 places where you need to place settings so that your PC will go into "standby" mode when left alone for a period of time.

1 is the power management section of the BIOS setup. Power management needs to be enabled, and you adjust some of the settings there.

The other is the power management option on control panel.

Set these for the time and type of shutdown that you want.

NOYE: if the mouse or keyboard are bumped, the system will come out of suspend, or the suspend timerwill be reset.

If the settings are correct, and your not shutting down, check for erratic mouse operation. Sometimes cleaning the mouse is all you need to do.

If your machine is on a network, network traffic could also prevent it from going into standby mode.

There is two things that cause this problem!
VGA and NIC. Update with Win95 Drivers and you are set.

Hi, go to your start button press shutdown does a box still return with the options restart shutdown etc, if so in the corner is a help button, it answers with help on shutdown problems and starting problems, very useful. Cheers Merete

Thanks for your reply. Can you please tell me how to update my Win95 Drivers?
Mik

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to your answers. Thanks for your patience. Much appreciated!
Mik