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by red

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Does anybody out there know if win 2000 takes advantage of an ATX power supply, so it can automatically power the system off?

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by steve

Windows 2000 Professional does take advantage of an ATX power suppply and shut the machine down, at least it does on my Dell. Also I have used Windows 2000 Advanced Server, that also took advantage of an ATX power supply (a custom built machine).

by tony.colgrove

If your motherboard has the proper APM or ACPI power support, your machine will fully poweroff from the shutdown command. I have three custome build system in my lab. Two motherboards are ACPI compliant the other is an older APM motherboard. All three have ATX power supplies. The ACPI poweroff, the APM leaves me with the "It is safe to power off screen"

by wburdine

The correct answer is yes Win2k does use and understands the ATX PS. However, do not turn on Advanced Power Configuration Interface on your mother board unless you have to. First try START|Control Panel|Power Options|select the forth tab APM and select the 'Enable Advanced Power Management Support'. Your system may need to be restarted. Then set your power schemes (same place different tab) and test it. If it works great. If not now you turn on your Bios ACPI...

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