Desktops & All-In-Ones

[jrtheviking]

Hi,

I use an Acer F690GVM (socket AM2) motherboard, with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ chip. I run Windows 7 Home Premium SP1. This is a system I recently adopted and I noticed that following shutdown, the USB ports continue to power items plugged into them. This includes an external hard drive that concerns me because its disc continues to spin and i've always believed that removing them while powered on can damage them. Advice received includes enabling ErP support but I have heard some that have used this ended with machines that wouldn't power on at all! Can anyone advise please?

[IronFly]

on some system this is a BIOS setting but i don't know if this will be available on your desktop.