Win2000 Power Management/Shutdown Problems

[RossMAN]

Ok... This will probably be a somewhat long post, so bear with me...

The problem I am having is with Shutting Down/Restarting/Standby Mode. The problem is: They DONT WORK! . If you shut down, You will hear the harddisk shut off, but the blue background will stay on (or will go to a blank text screen). The computer will not shut off. If you restart, the same thing will happen except that the HD will not turn off, so there is no clue to if the OS has 'powered down' itself. For standby, it is the same as shutdown, except that you cant wake it back up... you have to restart.

I have read Microsoft's troubleshooting page for these symptoms, but they were no help. The computer does not shut down properly in safe mode, and microsoft eludes to the fact that you are screwed if this happends. (This also pretty much means that it is not a thrid party driver prob because those wouldnt be loaded in safe mode).

I attempted to do this the hard way by installing the OS/Programs in stages. After each stage, I would confirm several times that the computer functioned properly, then I would create a disk image using Norton Ghost.

Stage info:

Stage 1 - Worked fine after these installs:
Windows 2000 Pro Upgrade Base install

Stage 2 - Worked fine after these installs:
Service Pack 1
Nvidia / monitor drivers
sound drivers (SB Live value)
Intellimouse Software
Winzip

Stage 3 - Worked fine after these installs:
Sony CD Extreme
Easy CD Creator
Hotline
ws_ftp
Napster

Stage 4 - Initially appeared to work fine (see below):
Winamp
PowerDVD
SecureCRT
Audioactive Production Studio
Acrobat
Goldwave
Winvi

Stage 5 - Stopped working after these installs:
Photoshop 5
Office 97
Netscape 4.75
Real Player 8

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When I got to stage 5, after I made the image of stage 4, It still worked fine. I installed Stage 5 progs, and it stopped. When I reverted back to stage 4 with the image, It no longer worked fine. The next thing I will try is to go back to stage 3 :| :| and start again :| :|. So far I think the biggest probability is Netscape 4.75 and/or ICQ (which I originally had in stage 3, but cause problems too).

So the question is:

Anyone else had similar probs, and have you figured out what the causes are? (I really dont want to go back to win98 )


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Hardware:

Athlon Slot A 800mhz
Asus K7V MB - Bios flahed to v. 1007
Nvidia TNT2 Model 64 (32mb ram)
Maxtor 7200rpm 20gig
256 pc133 kingston ram
sony cdrw
dvdrom
Macronix MX98715 Family Fast Ethernet Adapter (ACPI)
SB Live Value
Zip100 atapi
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Thanks,
Ross

 

[OS]

Supposedly some drivers don't support the standby mode. So you gotta hunt down which is the rogue driver. Incredible pain in the ass. Maybe verifier.exe can help you.

 

[TBP]

First thing: Win2k doesn't support sleep(standby) unless the computer is run on battery. So forget about putting the puter into sleep mode.

Now about the shutdown problem, I would say there might be some processes that do not want to quit, or not respond to the OS's call for quit, so the window is just simply hanging there. And who can disable/ignore OS's interruption? I would guess MS's own product...

hibernating works with win2k, which is nice that you don't have to wait for a full bootup.

 

[PliotronX]

Did you make sure to disable ACPI when you installed Win2k?

 

[TBP]

PliotronX

Would u mind giving some details? I though Win2K supports ACPI.

 

[PliotronX]

Yeah, it supports ACPI, but it's been known to cause problems and also decrease performance because it assigns all components to the same IRQ.

RossMAN; also try the following registry entry:

Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
Value Name: PowerdownAfterShutdown
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

Set the value to 1, it's set to 0 by default. If that doesn't work.. have you tried enabling APM under Control Panel>Power Management|Advanced ?

 

[JamieLim]

for win98, u can shutdown to dos and then switch off. i'm doing that for my office pc...

 

[RossMAN]

Wow thanks everyone for their suggestions I'll give them a try and hopefully it'll work