Faiyo

i have the latest drivers, and how do i flash the bios? its an ACPI. thanks everyone for your input, this is the first forum where ive gotten a positive response p

ok...and what am I supposed to look for? As I said, the hdd turns off fine..its the graphics card and mobo... seems I can't even standby or hibernate..you are telling me to go to controlpanel \ power options right?

I just got a new computer and installed winXP on it, but when I try to shut down it just hangs after the "windows is shutting down" prompt, goes to a blank blue screen and nothign short of a reset will get it to respond. Pulling out the power cable trips the power for the building at night coz more stuff is on. Reboot from the OS works fine (most of the time). Mobo is intel d856PERL. help!