ATX Power Off with Windows XP SP2 "Now safe to power off your PC" message

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Hi,

I have "clean installed" Windows XP Home on 3 PCs this week. After
installing XP Home on a clean hard drive I then immediately applied SP2 that
I downloaded from MS earlier this week. No other software or drivers or
anything is installed - XP Home with an SP2 chaser immediately following.

Here is the weird thing: each PC is giving me the "It's now safe to power
off your PC" at the end of the Windows Shut Down process. Just like in the
"old days".

Why is this? Is there a setting I should check? I had this once before a
long time ago and someone was able to give me a quick fix. I no longer have
those instructions.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Keith
 
KWA said:
Hi,

I have "clean installed" Windows XP Home on 3 PCs this week. After
installing XP Home on a clean hard drive I then immediately applied SP2 that
I downloaded from MS earlier this week. No other software or drivers or
anything is installed - XP Home with an SP2 chaser immediately following.

Here is the weird thing: each PC is giving me the "It's now safe to power
off your PC" at the end of the Windows Shut Down process. Just like in the
"old days".

Why is this? Is there a setting I should check? I had this once before a
long time ago and someone was able to give me a quick fix. I no longer have
those instructions.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Keith
Click to expand...

This usually means you need to enable APM support. To Enable Advanced
Power Management support click Start, click Control Panel, and then
double-click Power Options.

Click the APM tab.

Select Enable Advanced Power Management Support, and then click OK.

If that doesn't work, see this KB article for more things to try:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810903
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Yep - that worked perfect!

These PCs are a few years old and my guess is that XP assumed they can't use
APM or something like that. I clicked the box and that took care of it.

Thanks!!
 
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