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RE: how do I shut down??

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theob

In Reply to: RE: how do I shut down?? posted by easternlethal on January 18, 2009 at 03:03:27

I either leave on all the time (per cics) or when I need to shut down I press and hold power button on case.

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RE: how do I shut down?? - easternlethal 21:50:44 01/18/09 (7)
But doesn't that screw up the Windows installation?
- RE: how do I shut down?? - theob 05:27:42 01/19/09 (6)
  no how so?
  - RE: how do I shut down?? As Theo says... - sondale 06:24:12 01/19/09 (5)
    This is the method I use (holding down the power-on/off switch for about 6 seconds) - normally when you exit windows it will tidy-up after itself. With cMP it seems that the final step of powering off the pc does not happen.
    
    I assume you get to the blue screen after the various Windows messages (closing windows / saving your settings etc) at this point all you need to do is switch the pc off - no problems should occur.
    - 'X' followed by No to Restart prompt will shutdown - cics 09:58:33 01/19/09 (4)
      Restart with "SM Bus Driver" disabled in Device Manager won't work, otherwise computer should power down after a few seconds. No BSODs should occur.
      - RE: 'X' followed by No to Restart prompt will shutdown - easternlethal 18:29:02 01/19/09 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: 'X' followed by No to Restart prompt will shutdown posted by cics on January 19, 2009 at 09:58:33
        
        Theo / Cics - Thanks a lot for your advice. I think that the problem I am facing is that the even though the computer does power down, I am not experiencing any shutdown process.
        
        If I may, let me describe more fully what I am doing. Perhaps I am missing something.
        
        1. I boot up windows XP and then click on cMP, which disables explorer and launches the program. Everything goes according to plan here.
        
        2. However after finishing playback, I am stuck because I just have no idea how to initiate the windows shut down procedure. The only thing which seems to work is pressing and holding the power button or pressing the reset button. However this does not initiate any shutdown procedure - it just switches the computer off or resets (forced shutdown /reset). Windows does not try to tidy up after itself or close any windows / attempt to save any settings etc., and I do not get a BSOD.
        
        Pressing 'X' doesn't work and neither does pressing the power button once (which normally initiates the Windows shutdown process).
        
        The only other thing which I have tried is to bring back the Task Manager either by clicking on 'Settings' or 'Explore' and then running 'explorer.exe' from the desktop. However, when I do manage to get the Task Manager back, I still cannot shut down or reboot even by selecting 'shutdown' or 'reboot'.
        
        It seems as though cMP has disabled some function which allows Windows to shut down via its usual procedure.
        
        Theo / Cics - the failure of my computer to initiate any shut down processes leads me to think that I may be harming my windows installation if I keep just switching if off like that. Perhaps you don't think that is a problem. If that is the case would you mind confirming to me? If that is the case then I don't need to implement my 'boot-via-cd' solution (see below)
        
        Cics - Sorry but unfortunately I do not understand your SM Bus Driver Comment.
        
        After a long hard think, I have decided to continue using cMP because of the massive improvement it gives over just using my normal player (cPlay) in its normal windows environment. However in order to protect my existing windows installation, I am thinking of just booting up via a bootable windows CD (e.g. created using nlite) and then launching cMP each time I want to listen to music. That way if I have to do a forced shutdown it will not affect my own Windows installation. Hopefully that will give me the best of both worlds and allow me to use PC as a high end audio transport as well as a normal PC.
        
        As ever, I am grateful for your thoughts.
        
        RE: 'X' followed by No to Restart prompt will shutdown - theob 15:16:37 01/20/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: 'X' followed by No to Restart prompt will shutdown posted by easternlethal on January 19, 2009 at 18:29:02
        
        I power off all the time by pressing/holding power button but only in xp mode and xp diagnostics set on yes. I don't think it hurts anything but what is your concern?
        
        Try this: cMP settings � set Diagnostics to Yes � OK � 'X' � Yes � OK - cics 10:40:20 01/20/09 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: 'X' followed by No to Restart prompt will shutdown posted by easternlethal on January 19, 2009 at 18:29:02
        
        Let me know what happens.
        
        RE: Try this: cMP settings � set Diagnostics to Yes � OK � 'X' � Yes � OK - easternlethal 20:05:32 01/21/09 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Try this: cMP settings � set Diagnostics to Yes � OK � 'X' � Yes � OK posted by cics on January 20, 2009 at 10:40:20
        
        d'uh! I am an idiot. For some reason my screen was not displaying the 'X' as it had cropped off part of the right hand side of the cmp display screen. I just tried it last night and it works.
        
        Thanks a lot!
        
        cMP now rocks for me

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