"It is now safe to turn off your computer" message with my new P4 in Win2000?

[Bires]

This is really wierd. I haven't seen this in Windows2000...ever. My new Pentium4 gives me this message in Window2000. This would be only a minor irritance, except that when I press the power button to turn the computer off, the bios sets the FSB back to 100 (from 133).

I've poked around in the bios, but haven't seen anything that obviously relates.

Any ideas why this may be happening?

(Edit: doesn't always set the FSB back...becoming less of an irritance...but still a curiousity. Also, this is a fresh install of Win2k after building the P4)

[ribitch]

hmmm, what message? cant really tell you much unless you give the message, and the mobo make, computer make, etc.

[Jihforce]

Is it a Dell? ;)

[Bires]

Originally posted by Jihforce
Is it a Dell? ;)

No...specs in sig line


Originally posted by ribitch
what message?

"It is now safe to turn off your computer" (displayed in ModeX)

[Tommy Boomfiger]

some mobos wont shut down the computer all the way without certain ACPI drivers. we have an old compaq that does the same thing in xp and used to give us the same message in 2k until i installed the right drivers. as far as the bios thing, if you have hard jumpers you might want to try those.

[Bires]

All power management in the bios is turned off. Win2000 Service pack2 had all the drivers for the 845D chipset (MSI 845 Ultra ARU). There are no yellow or red markers in the hardware manager.

Any other info that would help?

[jase71]

In the Device Manager, open up "Computer" in the list of devices.

See what it says. If it says "advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) pc, then I dunno.

If it says "Standard PC", then Windows isn't using the ACPI drivers.

For example, I have my Win2K pc set to Standard PC, rather than ACPI. Standard PC maps devices out to different IRQs.

ACPI shares IRQs much more. It sticks a lot of stuff on 11, if I remember right. That causes some problems for me when playing games.

A side effect is that when it's set up as "Standard PC", I get the same message you do, and I have to power off manually.

If it's set to ACPI, then it'll power off on it's own when I shut down.

Worth a look, anyway....

[Bires]

Thanks jase71. When I opened the device manger-->computer, it displays "MPS Uniprocessor PC"

Sandra2002 confirms that the bios supports ACPI. I dont know if that means it is, or it supports it and its turned off.

Should I try to force an updated driver, or play with the BIOS?

[jase71]

Originally posted by Bires

Should I try to force an updated driver, or play with the BIOS?

You'll probably have to force an updated driver. Mine never changed in there whether ACPI was on it BIOS or not.

Back EVERYTHING UP. And then update the driver to an ACPI pc. Should already be on there if you choose "Show all hardware" or something like that...

Whether or not it works, well, that's entirely up to your pc. The driver that was on there may have been there for a very good reason. ;)

If it fails, you got none of this information from me. :D

[Bires]

Originally posted by jase71
If it fails, you got none of this information from me. :D

Understood....it did. I forced theinstall of the ACPI Uniprocessor...and Win2k went Tango Uniform. Oh well. I didn't have that much in the install anyway.

So, I installed WinXP, and it seemed to be working, but when I turned off my comp just now, it defaulted back to 100 MHz FSB. Oh well. I guess I'll just reset it every now and then.

I needed to give WinXP Pro another go anyway.

[jase71]

Originally posted by Bires


Understood....it did. I forced theinstall of the ACPI Uniprocessor...and Win2k went Tango Uniform.

Sorry to hear it... that's a bummer, even if you know it's a possibility.

Apparently there was a very good reason it wasn't running ACPI to begin with... I know of more than one board that's had a buggy implementation of it that didn't play nicely with Windows...

Better luck next time... though XP will probably treat you better than 2K in that respect.

Sorry I wasn't a better help! :(