Re: Shutdown

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

Its defiantly not an Abit board, I am reluctant to mess with anything as I
now have it running Win2K and ICS which for me is weyhey. I will probably
use the shutdown app then an appliance module to power it off.
Any ideas on a Win98 shutdown app?

Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: Graham P. Howe <graham@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Shutdown


> Before you rule out 'tooling around' with the bios, what motherboard
do
> you have. If it is an Abit then bios stuff really is very easy. I
> flashed three bios's on ABIT boards on Friday and all went without a
> hitch because of the new utilities available from the web. In fact if
> you are at all worried and you have an Abit board, then let me know
the
> model and I will put together a floppy disk image that is 'fool proof'
> for flashing the bios. Basically, given this disk, if you have a
floppy
> disk drive, reliable power supply, and you do exactly as instructed,
> then it is very unlikely you will damage your board (I can't say
> impossible, but I have not heard of one failing when the correct
> procedure was used). The actual bios setting is very straight forward
> and can not damage the board in any way, it is also completely
> reversible.
>
> If anyone else is interested in flashing their Abit bios then let me
> know and I will provide a disk image, just send me the model number
(if
> you don't know it then it is written on the board between two of the
PCI
> slots in most cases). This is not risk free, but it is very low risk
and
> to be honest there are some considerable risks of data loss and system
> crashes with some of the older bios's, especially when combined with
> some of the newer operating systems and peripherals.
>
> As I said in the other message, once the ACPI is set correctly in the
> bios then W2K and WXP seem to pick it up correctly during
installation.
> I personally have never tried putting ACPI in after installation, nor
> would I, but if you are about to build or re-build a system then you
> might as well get the bios stuff sorted first.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alancc [mailto:alan.cc@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 09 December 2001 10:13
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Shutdown
> >
> >
> > Thanks Graham, I think I will pass on tooling around with the
> > Bios though.
> > Any details on a Win98 shutdown app, I have looked at the 98
> > section on
> > Sysinternal but can find nothing.
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> > alancc
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Graham P. Howe <graham@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 8:42 PM
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Shutdown
> >
> >
> > > Just found this for remote shutdown
> > > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml
> > > <http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml>
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alancc [mailto:alan.cc@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 08 December 2001 19:08
> > > To: UKHA
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Shutdown
> > >
> > >
> > > How can I make my Win 2K machine shut down without having
> > to turn off
> > > the power, I want it to behave like it did with Win 98.
> > >
> > > Also is there a command that could be sent across the
> > network to shut it
> > > down.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Alancc
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