ATX shutting down like an AT machine.

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This is a computer given to the old fellow that lives over the street from
me by his son.
It is an old Celeron 300 on an ASUS board (slot 1) and seems to work ok with
XP Pro loaded except for the fact that when he shuts down, it does not
switch off like an ATX computer. Instead it gets to the point where it says
it is now safe to turn the computer off and the only way to turn it off is
to hold the power button in for 4 seconds.
I believe all settings are set correctly so has anyone seen this problem
before ?.
 
Make sure his PC has ACPI enabled . (is there a BIOS setting?) Check in
Windows, in the DeviceManager/System Devices - that ACPI fixed feature is
there.
 
IIRC, you have to enable APM (Advanced Power Management) in the power
options in Control Panel.

John S.
 
Canus_Lupis said:
This is a computer given to the old fellow that lives over the street from
me by his son.
It is an old Celeron 300 on an ASUS board (slot 1) and seems to work ok with
XP Pro loaded except for the fact that when he shuts down, it does not
switch off like an ATX computer. Instead it gets to the point where it says
it is now safe to turn the computer off and the only way to turn it off is
to hold the power button in for 4 seconds.
I believe all settings are set correctly so has anyone seen this problem
before ?.
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Yes, have the same problem on a Celeron 400 machine. I "solved" it by
turning off APM in the BIOS, and now it turns off after a single press of
the button. Before I'd hold it down for 4 seconds and it would power off,
but start back up when I released the button.

Still don't know exactly what's wrong with it, whether it's XP or the PSU or
the BIOS or the mb or what.
 
Sept1967 said:
Make sure his PC has ACPI enabled . (is there a BIOS setting?) Check in
Windows, in the DeviceManager/System Devices - that ACPI fixed feature is
there.
Click to expand...

This could be the problem in my other machine. It's an ACPI BIOS but Windows
doesn't detect it as an ACPI machine.
 
Darkfalz said:
Yes, have the same problem on a Celeron 400 machine. I "solved" it by
turning off APM in the BIOS, and now it turns off after a single press of
the button. Before I'd hold it down for 4 seconds and it would power off,
but start back up when I released the button.

Still don't know exactly what's wrong with it, whether it's XP or the PSU or
the BIOS or the mb or what.
Click to expand...

I have corrected this problem on a few systems by making sure
that the monitor is configured correctly. Go into the settings
for the video card, find the monitor configuration panel, and
make sure that the monitor shown there matches your actual monitor.
 
Darkfalz said:
This could be the problem in my other machine. It's an ACPI BIOS but Windows
doesn't detect it as an ACPI machine.
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The BIOS is too old, so Windows (2000/XP do a BIOS date check on
install) chose APM on install to avoid problems. For Asus P2B boards,
1014 beta 3 plus a reinstall (I think you can also migrate from APM to
ACPI in XP, with no official support though) should solve the problem.
(When it no longer does, turn back the time, err, the PC's current date
by a year or two when installing.) Similarly, P2L97 series boards should
run fine with 1010 beta 4; maybe the "date trick" will be needed there.

Stephan
 
Thanks for the responses. The old feller is tickled pink with his "new"
computer and getting it off him would be like trying to borrow his
granddaughter.
He has no problem with the fact it doesn`t shut down properly so I copied
and printed the various instructions that may fix it and will have a fiddle
with it when he leaves it alone for an hour or two. Cheers.
 
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