Sonic 296 Posted September 3, 2004 Just letting everyone know. I'll be away from CNCNZ.com for at least a day, possibly 2, while I rebuild my computer with my new parts and reinstall Windows. Share this post Link to post
Gazdude 0 Posted September 3, 2004 I hope everything goes to plan... The last thing we need is the Admin unable to access the site... Share this post Link to post
Saracen 16 Posted September 3, 2004 OK, I'll have ya covered on the news page :wink: Share this post Link to post
Saracen 16 Posted September 3, 2004 As that criminal guy says on the simpsons... oh right d000d, Now it's time to have a parrtay! Quick chickn'dips get those lapdancers I ordered for Sonic's Birthday, we'll use them now :lol: Share this post Link to post
J-Fire_Man 0 Posted September 3, 2004 Sonic gone, I should be able to start a riot here, but you're still here CnC King. One of the fiercest moderator :lol: Share this post Link to post
Sonic 296 Posted September 3, 2004 Well I'm sort of back earlier than I expected. I had no problems installing the new parts. Everything is working fine. Except for when I power down the system. If I go to START > Turn of Computer > Turn Off the system doesn't power down and switch off, it restarts. I may have BIOS setting wrong for the PW switch. I've reinstalled Windows XP and SP1, not sure about installing SP2 yet. I've seen to many horror stories. I don't have all my apps and games installed right now. For the record the new parts are.... - AMD AthlonXP 2700+ - Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 Nvida NForce2 - 512 MB DDR400 Ram (Dual Channel) - Seagate 120GB HDD Reused parts.... - Leadtek GeForce4 Ti-4200 8xAGP 128 MB DDR - 16x Song DVD Rom - 24x10x40 Creative CDRW - Stupid 56k Modem I'll be getting another 512 MB of RAM in a few months time, closer to Christmas I may look at a new video card. The Ti-4200 will do for now. Share this post Link to post
chickendippers 1 Posted September 3, 2004 SP2 worked perfectly for me, no problem what-so-ever and I have a partition with tonnes of junk installed. Share this post Link to post
bigfootedfred 0 Posted September 3, 2004 Well I'm sort of back earlier than I expected. I had no problems installing the new parts. Everything is working fine. Except for when I power down the system. If I go to START > Turn of Computer > Turn Off the system doesn't power down and switch off, it restarts. I may have BIOS setting wrong for the PW switch. I've reinstalled Windows XP and SP1, not sure about installing SP2 yet. I've seen to many horror stories. I don't have all my apps and games installed right now. For the record the new parts are.... - AMD AthlonXP 2700+ - Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 Nvida NForce2 - 512 MB DDR400 Ram (Dual Channel) . / hey thats my rig, and i have EXACTLY the same damn problem, never figured it out why it does that. its really annoying at first you turn it off go to bed, and when you get up and there it is asking you for your password. if you hold in the power buttong in does swtich off properly, but not if you shut down from windows, its quite strange, and ive never found a soloution. i did have a thought once though, when you turn thecomputer on, hte switch conects and then the disconectes, a single pusle in effect, which tells the mainborad to power up. if you hold the power button in, a contuinous current through the switch is happening, which makes it shut down. pressing restart is the equvalint of telling the computer to power up again clearing anything in the ram, (a diffrecnt pulse) in the os on shut down, they simulate the pulses sent by the switches. so mayb xp is simply sending the wrong pulse, on th the nforce 2 mainboard, and mayb there is a fix, but i cant seem to find one. you can try microsofts "soloution" which is to turn off atomatic restart in the event of expected sytstem power faliure, but all i got when i tired to shut down, was the blue screen of death. Share this post Link to post
Sonic 296 Posted September 4, 2004 I think I found a soloution. Found this page via Google: http://www.faqfarm.com/Computer/Windows/303 In particular this part: Open your registry: and find the key PowerdownAfterShutdown and set it to "1" to power off the computer at shutdown, or "0" to reboot. Here is the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinlogon If you don find it, create it(REG_SZ (String Value)) restart windows I did this and it shutdown and powered of the system. But then when I powered it back on, I though for peice of mind, I would try another shutdown. It just rebooted again instead. Back to square one I thought to myself. Then I went back to into the BIOS Power Management Setup, disabled "PME Event WakeUp" setting. I did this after finding this page http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1011135538 Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 2:58 pm Posted by rodders (1 messages posted) I have a tip regarding When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down: If you have a motherboard that supports ACPI, try disabling the 'PME Event Wakeup' setting in the Power Management section of the BIOS. It worked for me (Gigabyte GA-7ZXR with AMI BIOS) It seems to working for me, so bigfootedfred perhaps you should give it a try. Let me know if fixes it for you. Share this post Link to post
Hans5849 0 Posted September 7, 2004 i have that exact same problem with my gigabyte, so turn off PME event thanks Share this post Link to post
bigfootedfred 0 Posted November 18, 2004 It seems to working for me, so bigfootedfred perhaps you should give it a try. Let me know if fixes it for you. hey, dont mean to be a necromancer. but strangely enough what fixed my problem was a new GPU. works ablsoutley bloody fine now. maybee the crappy old geforce 2 i used to have was messing stuff up. Share this post Link to post
