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--- Quote from: shorthair on March 08, 2007, 08:59:38 pm ---I guess it depends on the Dell?  Mine shuts down properly when I press the power button. I think my recent free computer does so, too.  I thought this was a general Windows feature. No?

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Yeah, I guess with some of the older Dimensions (mine is an 8100 - about 5 years old), I guess the BIOS doesnt support power off via the power button.  At least that's the line they fed me at Dell's forum (and I tried the suggestions above and no dice either).  No big deal, its only one more button press to get it shut down.  At least I finally figured out how to wire that stupid controller card to get an external power button.

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It wont shutdown properly because of some incompatibility with ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)

Most hardware is now at a point where everything is compatible. but in days of old, some vendors would have bugs in their bios that they couldn't even patch because some component on the motherboard wasn't compatible with something else.Wasn't too uncommon for one dell to work fine and another to crap its pants at shutdown (blue screen) because at some point in the production they decided to use a different chip for the network port or some other thing.
they find out they screwed up, cant release more than one bios update for the same model line and decide to go back to the old chip. meanwhile you have a system that will most likely never shutdown completely properly.

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