Win 2K won't shut down

[mep]

I just recently put Win 2K on my old computer. Everything works fine except for the shut down routine. When I try to shut down the machine it restarts every time. Currently, I will wait till the machine is ready to restart and power off the machine. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this??

The machine's stats:
Intel PII 266
Asus P2L97 mother board
Matrox Millenium II video card
160 MB of memory
Western Digital 6.4 GB hard drive.

Thanks.

 

[Toejam31]

Have you installed <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp2/" target="_new">Service Pack 2</A>?

Do you have Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0?

Are all your drivers up-to-date?

Win2K or WinXP may encounter a problem during startup that results in a STOP error message. Depending on the system configuration, the error message on a blue screen may not be displayed long enough to record the error information. To gather important information about the STOP error message and to verify the cause:

Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties .

On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery .

Click to clear the Automatically restart check box under System failure, and then click OK . The error message on a blue screen should remain on the screen so you can record the error information.

Generally, the error message is searchable at the <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;rid;kbinfo" target="_new">Microsoft Knowledge Base</A>.

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[mep]

To answer your questions.

Service Pack 2 is intalled.

Easy CD creator is not installed.

I updated the drivers when I reformatted the machine to put 2K on it.

Currently, the machine doesn't seem to be failing. I did what you said to do and it just restarted again no blue screen.

Thanks,
MEP

 

[Toejam31]

I don't know if this is applicable, but your system is old enough that ACPI may not have been installed.

<A HREF="http://www.dfi.com.tw/support1/Hot Issues/HotAns062.htm" target="_new">How come the ACPI function fails to work under Windows 2000 and my system cannot shutdown automatically?</A>

Check the options for your system in the Control Panel Power Managment (or Options) dialogue. You might also wish to check the Power Management settings in your BIOS.

<A HREF="http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/atips/atips42.shtml" target="_new">Windows 2000 Shutdown Issues</A>

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[mep]

Thanks for the info. It was because my system is so old (circa 1997). Asus doesn't support a late enough Bios to help either. Shutting off power management settings allows it to go to the "ready to shut off" screen.

Thanks,
MEP