RJK
Tue May 27 00:38:54 PDT 2008
...having just re-read this thread. This shut-down behaviour, (PC pausing
at the "it's now safe to turn off your computer"), was very common with
Windows 98. I'm wondering if similar conditions which caused that, can
cause it in XP ?
...e.g PC Chips boards, many years ago, would exhibit this behaviour
"assign IRQ to VGA" was not enabled. (i.e. enabling "assign IRQ to VGA"
would cure it).
A few months ago I got a hang at "it's now safe to turn off your computer,"
I've since forgotten what I was doing !!
...anyhoooo, one good source for XP shut-down problems is www.aumha.org
specifically -
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
regards, Richard
"Ramesh" <ramesh2020@gmaildotcom> wrote in message
news:uZh6PS5vIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> RJK, am still with SP2 with latest updates. It was working fine when i
> installed it. not sure at what point the problem developed.
>
> Thanks for your inputs.
> Ramesh
>
> "RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OGhc7pxvIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> ...possibly relevant is that my main PC, (after installing P3), would no
>> longer resume from hibernation properly, (PC would hang at a black screen
>> after the big "dos" progress bar - i.e. immediately after hiberfil.sys
>> had been read), until I enabled "STR" in bios.
>> This had always been set to the default? /disabled, i.e. I'd never really
>> looked into it, and it had never been a problem in any XP shut-down modes
>> prior to SP3.
>>
>> ...looks like a multitude of sins in XP ACPI code have been corrected,
>> ...or altered, ...with SP3 :-)
>>
>> regards, Richard
>>
>>
>> "Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message news:g1db67$g52$1@aioe.org...
>>> Ramesh wrote:
>>>> Thanks Paul again for your detailed explanation.
>>>>
>>>> My situation is that I didnt have this problem when XP was installed
>>>> and I was using the system. For a few months, I gave the PC for an
>>>> associate to use. The problem happened only thereafter. That s why I
>>>> was suspecting some setting either in XP or in the BIOS. I tried doing
>>>> a default restore in the BIOS but didnt help.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like it has to be reinstall now which i shudder to try!! :(
>>>>
>>>> Ramesh
>>>
>>> You can try the "repair install" procedure. I don't know how well
>>> it works for HAL problems, but it is less work than a clean
>>> install. A "repair install" leaves your programs and settings
>>> intact. (Press F5 to specify the HAL.)
>>>
>>>
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>>>
>>> Say, for example, you have a WinXP SP1 install CD. You
>>> do the repair install with that CD. Then you'd install
>>> SP2, to bring the OS up to the second service pack level.
>>> Then, connect to Windows Update, and get the security
>>> updates and patches. If you were using IE7, then you'd have
>>> to install that again as well. But all of your
>>> other programs should remain as they were. The repair
>>> install takes the OS state, back to the way it was
>>> when you used that CD to install in the first place.
>>>
>>> Using SP3 would be a good way to reduce the Windows
>>> Update downloads, if you have access to a copy
>>> from somewhere. But if you have any question about
>>> the side effects of SP3, you can always use SP2
>>> and use Windows Update to get the rest of the
>>> patches and updates.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>>
>
>
