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Arcade Freak:

hi folks,

Thanks for all your replies but my problem still stands. The bios is correctly configured as the power management is enable. P.S. the pc was install previously with windows XP and the power button was working fine. When i say fine, i could press my power on/off button and the pc would automaticaly properly shutdown by closing all apps. Then on powering back up the scandisk would not come on as a proper shutdown was down.

Then for the power management in the control panel is also configure to shut down on power button press. But when its press the pc goes into Hibernation which i do not want...i want total shutdown. Then if i hold the button for 3-4 seconds it will just shutdown but then on powering it back up the scandisk runs. I know that i can turn the scandisk off but what is that actually doing to my hard disk.

The hibernation control thru the register as to be somewhere and if i can access it or find it then i could modify it to do a shutdown instead of hibernation.

As i am setting up a cocktail table i do not want to have to open it everytime to take out the mouse or the keyboard everytime i want to play a game...besides i don't want to take a chance and spill my beer...hahaha!!!!

Then i also have some young kids that just love to play with it and the simpler i can make it then the better.

Thanks all for your time and efforts
Calude

pmc:

If you can't solve the OS/BIOS weirdness, maybe consider a software shutdown from your FE? I shutdown gracefully by hitting P2-Start in MaLa.

-pmc

hanelyp:

The power button on the keyboard would have to be supported by a keyboard driver.  I don't believe the baseline keyboard driver supports the fancier keyboard functions.


xar256:

Win98SE had issues shutting down cleanly on some(most?) systems.  Try the shutdown suppliment patch from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239887.  In past that fixed a lot of machines with this type of problem.  Disabling scandisk was always the secondary fix around here.

danny_galaga:



because i use mame32 in my cab (yeah i know) i use a macro that maps 'fire' and 'player 2' to shut it down. since its win98 on a 2ghz computer it happens pretty quickly (",)

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