acpi niggle

[3wsparky]

I have just installed 2k pro on an oldish laptop ,
all good apart from the the shutdown it doesn't power off , i know this is an acpi thing which i have now spotted disabled in the bios , question is the o/s is on the laptop now , is there a regedit or something that will allow me to enable this function since i have finished the build on it ?

 

[goombawaho]

Here is Microsoft's official comment on the subject of changing HALs. Better read the warnings first. I am struggling with this same issue in Windows XP at the moment and have not gotten it corrected yet. The following are specific to W2K though.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237556

and

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246236

Here's the one that did NOT work for me, but W2K IS listed in this procedure as well, so give it a shot.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810903&Product=win20

 

[3wsparky]

i shall give this ago when i get to the laptop again , looks quite promissing , thanks