Powering off pc after shutting down W98SE

[gerald_weigel]

When I shut down windows on the PC at work, it powers the CPU down. But, at home shutting WIndows down, merely puts the CPU in standby. How can I have my home computer power down after I close windows? I didn't see anything in the BIOS or in the control panel.

[BlankPro]

What kind of machine do you have? Is the Win98SE on your work or home PC?

Back in the day, my parents baught me a "Packard Hell" when I graduated from high school. It had a toggle button on it so the CPU would only go into standby until I hit the power button again. I hated it. Is that the kind of button you have? Or is it just a regular one?

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[gerald_weigel]

Windows 98SE on both PCs


My home PC has:
ECS K7S5A V3.1
1.33 GHz Athalon
256 Mb RAM
120 Gb Maxtor HDD
52/24/52 Samsund CD-RW
16X Aopen DVD

[gerald_weigel]

I forgot to try looking in the control panel under power management...DUH.

I'll give that a try when I get home.

[gerald_weigel]

I looked in the power management section of the control panel, and everything was fine, also rechecked the bios settings, and there were no places to changes this, that I saw.

[Monstermile]

I have the same problem. On my old system (Athlon 600) it shuts right down. On the one I just built it goes into stand-by until you hit the power button. And nither of those are store bought (HP, Dell, etc) machines. I thought there was something you could do to shut it right down but either there isn't or I have forgot. Both systems are running 98SE.

[win2kuser]

I remember seeing something about win98se and powerdown problems - I think MicroSoft released a fix.

Try doing a search on the MS site for Win98se power management.

Also, some bios's have a setting for power button <4 seconds standyby/shutdown. It could be related to that.

hth.