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Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except when it
shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then you have to
press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on my pc running the
same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without touching the tower,
amy ideas?
Simon

"Sierra" <simon.day@invalid> wrote in message
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> Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except when it
> shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then you have to
> press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on my pc running the
> same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without touching the tower,
> amy ideas?
> Simon
>
If i remember right this one is to do with API and the way win XP deals with
shuting down and i bet in the other version of win you used it used to shut
off??

the API was sumthing to do with the BIOS not suporting it or it not being
enabled or properly congiured or summit along those lines

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:56:52 -0000, "chip_y2kuk"
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>"Sierra" <simon.day@invalid> wrote in message
>news:j4sWb.3511$...
>> Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except when it
>> shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then you have to
>> press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on my pc running the
>> same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without touching the tower,
>> amy ideas?
>> Simon
>>
>If i remember right this one is to do with API and the way win XP deals with
>shuting down and i bet in the other version of win you used it used to shut
>off??
>
>the API was sumthing to do with the BIOS not suporting it or it not being
>enabled or properly congiured or summit along those lines

http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/

<Harrison> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:56:52 -0000, "chip_y2kuk"
> <> wrote:
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> >
> >"Sierra" <simon.day@invalid> wrote in message
> >news:j4sWb.3511$...
> >> Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except when
it
> >> shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then you have to
> >> press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on my pc running
the
> >> same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without touching the tower,
> >> amy ideas?
> >> Simon
> >>
> >If i remember right this one is to do with API and the way win XP deals
with
> >shuting down and i bet in the other version of win you used it used to
shut
> >off??
> >
> >the API was sumthing to do with the BIOS not suporting it or it not being
> >enabled or properly congiured or summit along those lines
>
> http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/

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Sierra wrote:

> Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except when it
> shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then you have to
> press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on my pc running the
> same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without touching the tower,
> amy ideas?
> Simon


I am seeing the same behavior on one of my systems.
However, it is my oldest motherboard that is most probably
the cause of it. The motherboard is from 1993 and used to
run Win 3.1 when the whole system arrived on my doorstep
in 1993. If you want to research that motherboard of your
dad's you might find why or if it can be tweaked in the bios
to fix your annoyance. Also check www.annoyances.org for
clues as well. Here are search results at that site for
"it is now safe to shut"

http://tinyurl.com/2jffp

If you find the answer there (TINT), post it back here
(TINH). (^:

JM

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kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor
with the cry of grave national emergency."
-- US General Douglas MacArthur, 1957

Sierra wrote:
> Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except
> when it shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then
> you have to press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on
> my pc running the same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without
> touching the tower, amy ideas?
> Simon

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810903

have you tried running through the troubleshooter? so obvious im sure you
have.
Gordon
"Sierra" <simon.day@invalid> wrote in message
news:j4sWb.3511$...
> Just installed win xp-pro on my fathers pc,all running fine except when it
> shuts down it says 'it is now safe to turn the pc off' then you have to
> press the button on the tower and it shuts off,except on my pc running the
> same winxp-pro it shuts it all off together without touching the tower,
> amy ideas?
> Simon
>
>