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Comp no turn off
Name: Dementor Date: April 19, 2007 at 12:53:22 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: AMD Product: Home built
Comment:
For some reason when I shut down my windows will save and close down completely like normal, but my computer wont shut off. I have to turn off the compy by the power button. Anyone have this before, or any suggestions.
Asus K8V SE Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2x 512MB Corsair PC3200 Radeon 9600XT Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
Name: Richard59 Date: April 19, 2007 at 13:19:43 Pacific
Reply:
Has it always done this or is it a recent change in behaviour? Some idea of the age of the system and the specs of the components might be helpful too. Have you looked at the power settings in bios?
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: April 19, 2007 at 14:39:55 Pacific
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.
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