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by phill ramsden

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having eventually ended up with a stable operating system, ie XP (I know there are some out there that would disagree, but it is the only OS I have got that supports my graphics card...) anyway on with my question:

When my PC was new with windows98 (first ed) choosing shutdown would turn the whole computer off, due to the ATXness of it, is there any way to get XP to do this, or am I stuck with "It is now safe to turn off your PC" hand holding exersises?

cheers,

Phill

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by 1stladytech

Sounds like your ACPI layer on the motherboard is not compliant with XP. Check the motherboard site for a bios flash upgrade, but the chances are probably slim on that old of a mb. Other than that, you have to deal with the shutdown screen and turn it off manually.

Vickie

by thechas

Open device manager.

(right click on My Computer, click on hardware, click on device manager)

You may need to enable view all or hidden devices.

Select APM, right click, and enable it.

Don't know why on some systems, XP does not enable APM by default.

Chas

by netuser

Another way is click Start, then control panel, then power options, then APM. Put a check mark on Enable APM support.

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