When "shut down" the comp restarts.. (W2K)

[aderlind]

When I turn off my comp it restarts.. I've changed some settings so I have to shut down when the sign "Now its save to turn off your computer" I want my comp to turn off himself so i dont have to cut the power :/ It worked before but then after some while it just stoped do it..I think I changed something in BIOS but dont remeber what it was.. can someone tell me what to change :/

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by aderlind on 03/07/02 07:03.</FONT></P>

[matheuge]

IN the BIOS there is an option 'shutdown' or 'power off' by power button an software , check it out!

[SixPackM]

What if enabling that option in the Bios doesn't work. I mean, it is already enabled, but Win2k still doesn't automatically power off. Any other solution? -Thanks

[dwwells]

Did you ever find a viable solution to this? I'm having the same problem on a few different machines. When I change the shutdown setting in the registry to 4 then it shuts down fine. However on the next logon the registry reverts back and I can't shutdown without holding the power button down.

[Number]

Are you setting PowerdownAfterShutdown to 4 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon? I thought the only valid values were 0 and 1.

I've been unsuccessfully trying to get a number of ATX Win2K machines to automatically power off. If that key works then you could put it in a .reg file and have it run at startup.

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