Windows XP not properly shutting down pc hardware.

[3rd_shift]

The computer has an Intel 810 chipset with a bios date of 11-99.
Intel P3 600E
ATX case and power supply.
No ISA hardware installed.


I did try WinME, Win98 and 98 Second edition.
These were able to properly shut off the pc.

WindowsXP Pro won't for some reason.

Anyways,
I have to hold down the power button for several seconds to shut her off.
I would like to keep XP Pro if I could.
It recognized and set up the rest of the hardware nicely, including the DVD reader/cd rewriter.

I'm getting the same problem with a pc I built for my Mother a while back.
Ity was fine until my Mom insisted that she wanted MS Powerpoint and the required addition of Windows XP Upgrade.

It has;
ATX case and power supply.
P3 500 slot1 (Katmai)
A 1998 DFI motherboard with a newer bios installed 6/2000.
It had Win98 SE before the upgrade to XP SP2 over top of it.
No ISA devices were ever in the Computer.

 

[Peddant]

If the solution isn`t on this site,it isn`t anywhere - http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

 

[howard_hopkinso]

I was about to post exactly the same link Peddant, but you got there first mate.

3rd_shift, as Peddant says. If that link doesn`t help I don`t know what will.

Regards Howard

 

[3rd_shift]

Thanks!
I checked out the link.
Some of the suggestions make sense.
I'll try those out tomorrow at work.