Award Bios not shutting down

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Tue May 13, 2003 2:36 pm

Everytime you go to shut down the damn thing just reboots

Does anyone remember which to switch in the Bios to make it shut down properly

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Tue May 13, 2003 2:45 pm

i'm on a crappy computer with Crappy dial up right now

IE keeps crashing when trying to search google.

I want to know before I leave here

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue May 13, 2003 2:57 pm

When it reboots, turn the power supply switch off. A bit of a hassle, but it'll work.

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Tue May 13, 2003 2:58 pm

well yeah thats what I would do too

But I guess some people are just too lazy and they want it to shut down properly

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Tue May 13, 2003 3:02 pm

if they want a computer that works properly all the time they should just, I don't know, get a.... shit, can someone help me out here??

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Tue May 13, 2003 6:57 pm

Maybe there is some kind of faulty driver or somthing that is making the computer re-boot when it is unloaded.

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:42 pm

*Offensive comment removed*

I think it is something with power management in windows or Bios

Ghost [PX] · Post by **Ghost [PX]** » Tue May 13, 2003 10:36 pm

The last several posts were deleted beacuse they:

1. had no bearing on the topic

2. were nothing more than a pissing match between Pinter and Nick

If someone isnt contributing, just ignore them, dont start a fucking argument about it.

Dont like that I deleted the posts? Then dont fucking post retarded pissy-ass bullshit like that.

As for the BIOS Problem, I really couldnt say what the problem is. I imagine that your right, and its somewhere in the BIOS power settings. Best of luck with the problem.

[Fallen]Thanatos · Post by **[Fallen]Thanatos** » Wed May 14, 2003 2:22 pm

right click on my computer, choosse properties, choose the advanced tab, choose startup and recovery uncheck automatically reboot. then instead of rebooting, you should get an error message that will help track down the problem.

or

Check your RAM.

if you have 2 sticks of mem in, try one at a time.

see im not just a pritty face

gl

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed May 14, 2003 2:28 pm

Aw, but I wanted to read the pi$$ing match. 2 guys dousing each other with liquid excretement is always good for a laugh. I would concur with deleting as long as a warning was given (just for future reference). Though, before anyone starts yelling about deleting posts, I'm standing behind Homey V on this one as of now.

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Wed May 14, 2003 4:38 pm

Sorry to tell you Pimp, but you are just a pretty face in the crowd

I will tell you my reasoning

1) What you said had no relation to the problem. What you were refering to was when windows xp/2000 has a problem on startup, it will reboot. If you uncheck this the system will halt and not reboot so you can read the error message.

2) This is Windows 98 and not xp/2000

3) Because this is not an error the Ram will have nothing to do with it. The computer just doesn't want to shut down.

Thanks for trying though

[Fallen]Thanatos · Post by **[Fallen]Thanatos** » Wed May 14, 2003 5:18 pm

ah well

at least im still a pritty face :lol:

[Fallen]Thanatos · Post by **[Fallen]Thanatos** » Wed May 14, 2003 10:33 pm

When You tell it to shut down windows tells all programs to save their data and close . When the last one compleetes it tells all devices to save their drivers and shut down or load the generic windows / bios drivers so the mobo can turn them off.
Apparently somewhere in this sequence , something is crashing so badly it is taking windows with it.

First thing to do is reboot to safe mode (when computer restarts tap F8 once a second until you get the start options menu and choose 3 safe mode)
Once in safe mode, shut down.
If it restarts, it is either the mobo, power supply or you have changed the setting in control panel/ power from shut down to restart (when I click shut down computer should....)
If it shuts down from safe mode, it is a device driver or theme isue.
Restart in safe mode and go to device manger.
Select and remove the entry for display adapter and sound card (under display adapters and under sound/video/ game controllers).Also remove any duplicated devices and anything with yellow ! or red x.
Go to control panel / sounds and change all to none.
Right click on desktop and choose properties.
Change theme to windows standard, background to none (a single color) and screensaver to none. On screensaver tab, click on energy star settings and set everything to always on and turn off never with the exception of when I click shutdown turn off computer.
Restart and let devices get redetected and drivers reloaded.
See if this fixes it.
If not download and install latest drivers for video card and sound card.

and well if this dont work im out of ideas

gl

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Wed May 14, 2003 11:44 pm

Power managment is always such a bitch, as far as I'm concerned it's more trouble than it's worth.

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Thu May 15, 2003 9:51 am

I don't believe for a second that you wrote that Matt... look at the proper grammer and spelling! :mrgreen: