Re: [OT] Shut down

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Hi Don,

Did you play in the BIOS setup lately?
Some BIOS have the option to disable APM. If it is disabled in the BIOS setup
then windows won't use it.

regards,
Jacques DeschĂȘnes



don cole wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
>    I am having trouble shuting down my computer with Windows XP. When 
> I shut down the screen says "It is now safe to shut off your computer".
> Then I have to turn off the computer by hand.
> Before it just shut down when I walked away from it. It just started doing
> this.
> I looked this up on Annoyances.org and they say "Go to Control Panel/Power
> Options
> and click the APM tab to toggle this on and off. Problem is when I go to Power
> Options there isn't any APM tab.
> 
> Has anybody else had this problem?
> 
> Don Cole

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