XP machine no longer powers off when shutting down

Hello (again),

Dell Inspiron 9400 (5 years old) running Windows XP Pro SP3 with all updates.

You good people helped me on Monday to recover from a 'hal.dll missing or corrupted error'. The solution was to run 'bootcfg /rebuild' from the command prompt.

However, since then, my machine no longer powers off automatically when I shut down. All I get is the old 'It is now safe to turn off your computer'.

I have tried to resolve this by googling and found a post that required navigating to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion', creating a key called 'PowerdownAfterShutdown' and set the value to '1'. This I've done but didn't work!

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Tim

 

Start here... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903