Hi,

Just installed xp and now when shut down it goes to a black screen with the win logo which says "now safe to switch off" when i press the off button it reboots the machine!

I can now only turn the machine off at the wall socket.

Machine is Viglen Contender C400, Celeron MMX 400MHz. Motherboard is Micro-Star Intl - MS6119 Ver1.1 BX2.

Did full install, not the upgrade and converted to the NTFS from Fat32.

I have been told by a bloke in the pub that I may need to 'flash the bios'. No idea what this means or if it would be a good idea.

Anyone know what this means? I have looked at bios settings before - i tested it out by changing the Num Lock to on, but really i am a beginner at this. (its the first time i have taken the lid off and looked inside which is how i found out the motherboard details)

Another suggestion was that i needed a motherboard drivers pack but in device manager all drivers seem to be working correctly.

Please help.

Rach

just fixed this problem on my old gateway select that i upgraded to XP. this is what worked for me. go into device manager, show hidden devices. look for NT apm/legacy support and make sure it is enabled. mine was disabled. I had also been in the BIOS and made some changes, but this was the last thing I done that worked. also had a registry fix that i found at winguides.com "power the computer off after shutdown" It may have been the combination of things I done, but it worked. It was driving me crazy. Hope this helps.

will try that now and let you know if it works.

just fixed this problem on my old gateway select that i upgraded to XP. this is what worked for me. go into device manager, show hidden devices. look for NT apm/legacy support and make sure it is enabled. mine was disabled. I had also been in the BIOS and made some changes, but this was the last thing I done that worked. also had a registry fix that i found at winguides.com "power the computer off after shutdown" It may have been the combination of things I done, but it worked. It was driving me crazy. Hope this helps.

Thanks Lare, it worked first time.