Windows 2000 shutdown

During setup, Windows 2000 will detect if your BIOS supports ACPI or not. If you decided to leave ACPI disabled, you may want to enable APM (Advanced Power Management) after the system is installed, so that the system can switch off the system aftershutdown. You can do so at Control Panel > Power Options, in the APM tab.

If your PC does not power off after a shutdown, the first thing to check is whether there is an APM tab under Power Options in Control Panel. If there is not, your PC was in the APM disable list and your options are to get a newer BIOS from the motherboard manufacturer or get a motherboard on Microsoft's compatibility list. If the APM tab is there, you may be in luck. Your PC fell into the neutral list and APM support is installed but disabled. To test whether APM works:

In Control Panel,double-click Power Options
On the APM tab, click Enable Advanced Power Management Support.

If this does not work for you, APM support may be turned off in Device Manager.

In Device Manager, select View, show hidden devices.

Under NT APM/legacy support, check NT APM/legacy interface node.

Enable node if disabled.

If this doesn't fit your setup, a number of W2K users are solving their shutdown problems by uninstalling a hidden device driver for TPkd.

(See article for information on TPkd.)

The preceding was obtained from an article on Windows 2000 shutdown issues which can be found at the following link:

http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/atips/atips42.shtml

You may also want to reference this link for more information on Windows 2000 shutdown settings (and issues):

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBF/Tip2500/rh2530.htm

(REMOVE SPACES from the pasted URLs.)

Maxwell

Windows 2000 DOES shut down atx systems completely. It could be a specific hardware issue in your case.

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Not so much an answer as a comment:
I have set up several similar machines [RM's] @ the University of Liverpool. Some do auto-shutdown, some don't. I doesn't on my Athlon/KT7 machine @ home, nor on most machines I've set up: on or off a network. I'd love to know why too.