Mike,

You are suffering from the convenience of "Power Management".  Chances are
your previous operating system did not know how to take advantage of an ATX
powered system with power management enabled in the BIOS.  With the correct
system settings an ATX system will not need to be manually powered off.
What you are experiencing with the other Win98 systems is either an AT power
supply that does not allow automatic shutdown, or an ATX power supply that
does not have power management enabled in the system BIOS.

You can also shut this feature off within Windows 98, but it is a little
more abstract a process that using the BIOS.  I actually like the feature,
but keep in mind that with power management enabled you usually have
wake-on-lan enabled and wake-on-ring (for the modem) enabled.  This can be a
potential security issue as certain devices that support these options will
allow your system to be powered up remotely.  Have I opened a big enough can
of worms here?  I'll stop for now, but hope this information helps.

Kyle

From: "Mike Mason" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:22 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Lost Win98 Closing Down Message


I have just rebuilt my system and upgraded my operating system to Windows 98
second edition.

I now find on closing down that the windows 98 screen is displayed and then
the machine immediatley switches off. Before upgrading I used to get the
message that it was OK to switch of the machine on closing down. This does
not appear to be causing problems (eg no scan disk at startup) but other
win98 systems I have seen seem to close down in what I consider is the
normal way.

Chip is Athlon 650
Motherboard is a Biostar M7MKA
BIOS is Award flashed to the most recent update at the shop were I purchased
it.

Mike Mason

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