Isn't there a setting in the BIOS to enable this? It might be under power management. I can't recall the exact setting though.

Thanks kgeissler that helped me out quite a bit. I went and checked on VIA Hardware.com at Pauls FAQ's and there was some similar information there. You were right about the BIOS setting. But I did have to enable ACPI and THEN reinstall Windows 2000 fresh. If ACPI isn't enabled when you install Windows 2000 it will never recogonize the ACPI even if you go back after the install and enable it in the BIOS. And if you do install Windows 2000 with the ACPI enabled in the bios and go back after the install and disable it, that will corrupt the system. Anyway just thought I would add this info to what I learned from you. A lot of bright people in this forum. I love it. Thanks again.

Just so you know, you can still get windows 2000 to turn off your computer even with ACPI disabled. Just go to the power options bit in control panel and enabled 'APM' support and it will do it. Just for future reference or if anyone else has this problem

M4Carbine could you please give me a better detail on how to get to set this APM. I know I can get the computer to shutdown manually by changing the power button option. But I am talking about doing an automatic shutdown thru software. Could you please be more specific. I am fairly new to Win2K. Always have had dual boot Win98/NT before. Some of this stuff throws me for a loop. I would appreciate some help. Thanks

OK, the screen will only appear if you have your PC setup to not use ACPI.
 
Right click on desktop -> properties.
Screen saver tab, click 'power' button.
Should see an 'APM' tab, click it and it has 1 checkbox that says something like 'enable APM support'.
Tick that, reboot and it will shut down totally rather than say it is now safe to turn off.