Computer Audio Asylum

Posted by easternlethal on January 19, 2009 at 18:29:02

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.