This problem amazes me that I cannot fix it. I built a really cheap computer for about 300$. It has a Biostar mvig 400 mb with a built on sempron 2200+. When it shuts down windows unloads, the hdd stops but it just sits there on with blank screen. It is like an old AT mb where it sais it is safe to turn of your pc, but it doesnt even show that. I have messed around with Xp settings, bios settings, I flahed the bios to the newset vesrsion, I have messed with acpi, noTHING!?

Any intelligent ideas?