APM Restart Problem

[Lost Soul]

hi im just finishing up an upgrade by clean instal from 98se to xp pro and i noticed the pc wasnt powering off correctly, it was poping up to the screen that says "its now safe to turn off your pc" well the normal procedur to fix this is to enable apm in the power managment of the pc, but for some odd reason when i did this, it bypasses the its safe to turn off the pc screen, but then it sets its self in a loop and it just turns back on after youve already hit turn off, so in return you cant ever turn the pc off, because it automatically turns it self backl on like a restart

strange problem, does any body know what i should do to fix this one

[ripken204]

strange, have u looked here?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;810903

[Lost Soul]

yea i looked there but it dosnt have the answer the pc is apm compliant, but i found this page and it says that some ppl have the restart effect after the enable the apm and then some ppl have the opposite of it

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

im still not really sure what to do yet,,

one thing im gonna try is to disable automatic restarts in case of errors , i cant flash the bios because they dont have any upgrades available for the mobo

Edited August 14, 2005 by Lost Soul

[Lost Soul]

ok heres the update so far

after enabling the apm, it creates a none turn off pc resulting in when you turn the power off it restarts

i tried to fix this by takinga chance on turning off the system restart inccase of an error

well the result when powering down was the blue screen of death with the error

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

any body got any ideals

[ripken204]

load it back up and look in the event viewer, then click the link and it will pop up help, then give us what is says there

this is prolly b/c a device overheated and couldnt connect with the driver the right way

Edited August 14, 2005 by ripken204

[Lost Soul]

thanks for trying to help ripken204 im afraid the components in the pc are just too old and the pc needs a major upgrade like everything new lol, but my friend will have to survive on using the power button to turn there pc off until they can afford to build a new pc, there mobo and the majority of all there pc parts are about 7 years old

grrr they have a 300mhz cpu with 64mb pc100 i boosted it up to 190mb pc100 ram now by installing a new ram stick just so they could take the jump on most progs plus it helped out on the transition from 98 to xp

once again thanks

[ripken204]

wow i though my dad was the only one too cheap to uy a new comp, still uses a 350mhz and he upgraded from 64mb to 368mb pc100

and he has no plans on upgrading for a long time