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OzStick:
Hey there spystyle, awesome piece of work with your MAME-XP!
I followed your tutorial and I've now got a very lean and mean install of XP to use on all my setups, so for that I thank you. :cheers:
The only "issue" I have is that the PC no longer does a full shutdown, which I suspect is to do with Minlogon as I've never had this happen with XP or any other version of TinyXP I've used.
Instead, it now seems to do a suspend of WIndows and pops up a screen saying "Your computer is now safe to switch off". This isn't all bad, because once it's all in a cabinet you then know it's OK to turn the whole thing off at the wall, however I'd like to CHANGE that screen to get rid of the Windows logo and swap it for something else more arcade related.
I know Bootskin can be used to relpace the STARTUP screen, but is there anything that does the same thing to this Shutdown screen?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Chris
spystyle:
Hi Chris,
I'm glad you like my MAME-XP tutorial. But rather than change the shutdown screen, perhaps we could figure out which service is missing that would have allowed a proper shutdown...
I'll have to ask around.
Cheers,
Craig
OzStick:
--- Quote from: spystyle on July 18, 2008, 10:20:23 am ---Hi Chris,
I'm glad you like my MAME-XP tutorial. But rather than change the shutdown screen, perhaps we could figure out which service is missing that would have allowed a proper shutdown...
I'll have to ask around.
Cheers,
Craig
--- End quote ---
Thanks Craig,
It's interesting you say that - the first time I installed MAME-XP I used a crappy little 2Gb Fujitsu HDD, left it to do its thing and when I came back it had an error message stating it couldn't continue because the folder "\h" had not been created.
I suspected it may have filled the drive so I swapped it for a 10Gb HDD and this is now what I have.
SO for you to say that there may be a service missing has me thinking it is possibly the install CD at fault.
I might do some tinkering myself and if I work it out I'll let you know.
Cheers,
Chris
tikbalang:
it may have to do with acpi/apm power management. i remember i had to tweak something in control panel --> power options for this kind of problem. at least disable hibernate and make "power off" button shutdown the pc.
in the device driver, "computer" should be on acpi or standard pc, whichever has the good driver for you mobo. i don't remember how to change that.
look in your bios and check your power management settings. make sure shutdown really makes the pc shutdown and not sleep,hibernate or standby.
turn off PNP OS even with win2k/xp/vista/linux so everything is set and done by the time your os loads. the only downside with this is some hardware may require a reboot after installing the drivers.
spystyle:
I will have more time soon to set up a 'puter with MAME-XP on it and do some testing. I'll report my findings.
It's likely a registry setting, a bios setting, a windows setting, or MinLoigon should be updated.
Have fun :)
Craig
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