Vanguard3000 Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 I installed WinXP on my computer, but now when I go to shut down, windows will shut the computer down, but the computer itself (i.e. the power supply and fan) will stay on. Pressing the power button does nothing, so I have to unplug it in order to cut the power. When windows and everything is running and I press the power button, it cuts the power.I seem to recall there being an option to select what you wanted the power button to do when windows was on (hibernate/standby, shut down, turn off PC, nothing) or off (turn off PC, nothing). I checked in the power options, but to no avail. If anyone knows where this option is, please let me know.Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timenn Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 You should be able to select the option you want here:Control Panel -> Power Options -> Advanced Tab -> Power buttons sectionAnother thing is, if you hold the power button down for a while, the computer will shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 It depends on the type of Motherboard you have for one. next to that there is a registry entry called PowerDownAfterShutdown that does miracles form time to time.hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowsntcurrentversionwinlogonPowerdownAfterShutdown data = 0 ( changed this to "1" )If that doesn't help you probably have a somewhat outdated computer and wrong HAL settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timenn Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 What was it again you said?You haven't learned to use Windows if you haven't learned to work with regedit.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 New mobos, or is it the powersupplies, that stay running for a while to make sure your hardware doesnt get damamged by not having heat dissipated after shutdown 8)although I guess you would have spotted that from the beginning if it were that ::)That was just my initial thought when I read the first paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 in the bios you can change also settings like "soft of" and hold 5 sec before power down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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