I installed win2k on a computer and when I go to "shut down" the computer it goes through the process and then says "it is now safe to turn off your computer." Does anybody know if/where there is an option to tell it to just shut itself off?

 

it might be in the bios. what kind of machine is it. how old ?



usually the comps that do that are REALLY old. might want to update the bios

 

more than likely you'll need need to have ACPI support enabled if it's even supported on your motherboard... another kicker is that you usually can't just enable it, you have to reload windows 2000... you can try changing the driver for the System to an ACPI one, but more than likely your machine will blue screen at boot...



here's some links about ACPI



http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefin...i213657,00.html

http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dict...tml?lookup=7580



good luck!

 

i'll look in the bios and if it's not there the girl whose comp it is can just hold the off button... my *** isn't reloading windows AGAIN!! Thanks for the help and btw this comp was put together in 98

 

if the computer has an AT style power supply it won't shut off via software (like windows does).



98... it's a crap shoot, could be either one. Likely to be ATX though which should have the ability.

 

go into control panel and then power options. enable apm