Automatic Turn-Off


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What didnt ya get? When he shuts down windows, it turns off his computer. He doesn't want that.

I'm not sure. I know you can turn off power management from bios and usually that'll stop that..but I'm sure someone here will know of a reg entry or something of the such.

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i know a program that would do the reverse of that (poweroff when you shutdown and it says "It is now safe to turn off your computer")

it worked in XP..

i dunno how you would to that tho..

check power management in control panel

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ACPI Function | Enabled

Video Off Option | Always Off

Video Off Method | V/H SYNC+Blank

MODEM Use IRQ | 3

Power Button Function | Instant Off

Wake Up Events | Press

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Originally posted by Techneaux  

What happens if you turn off ACPI?

I don't wanna turn it off until I know what it does :)

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Um...unless it's a notebook, what would he lose?

Windows has APM and other such support besides ACPI, it's just those usually either give an option for power off or they dont power off at all. Usually what you lose is certain hard drive timed shutoffs, and sometimes hibernation. WinXP comes with their built-in hibernation that kinda stinks, but still works.

Of course if any of the other solutions work, use those instead.

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yes, turn off ACPI. i know for certain this works, because i have disabled it in order to solve latency issues with my audio software. ever since then my pc does not turn itself off automatically. so that will do the trick. :)

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it's not in the bios. you have to do it through the device manager.

in device mgr, the first listing is 'computer'. under it should be 'Advanced Configuration and Power Inface (ACPI) pc'. double click that and click the 'driver' tab. click update driver. then click 'display list of drivers.. blah blah'. then change it from ACPI to STANDARD PC. reboot and done. :bandit:

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sorry to come across wrongly. what i should have said was that disabling it in the bios will not achieve what he is wanting to do. since windows is already installed, he will have to do it in windows as i mentioned

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Ah. Although in Windows XP for myself, that's not true. I've disabled/reenabled it plenty of times on my Notebook and windows recognizes the change right as it reboots.

Was that only true with the older 9x versions? Or maybe it is a bios thing, maybe in some bios when you turn it off windows doesn't see the change? (though..that'd get me confused, since what would happen instead?) Or am I just missing the point of changing that option in windows settings? :)

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not real sure. i can only refer to the couple of pc's i have done it on. windows may handle acpi differently on a notebook or it may just be something different in xp. the machines i have done it on have been win2k pc's, not notebooks;)

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