auto shut down/battery icon

[billpater]

 Had to reinstall xp home addition on my laptop,after I did, whenever I go to shut down the computer it stops on a window that says, its safe to turn your computer off. It used to shut off the computer automatically, not any more. Any sugestions?
 Also after reinstallation when you unplug the power cord you don't see the battery icon in the task bar to tell you how much power is left in it. It used to do that too,Any help would be apreciated. thanks

[JJ 3000]

How did you reinstall XP? Did you use a recovery partition or a disk? If you used a disk, was it the one that came with your computer?

[Allan]

After resinstalling XP did you install the chipset driver?

[billpater]

I reloaded from original disks that came with computer.
Also what is chipset driver?

[Allan]

I don't know what "the original disks" are. If you reinstalled the OS from scratch you need to find the disk with the drivers and install the chipset driver followed by all other drivers.

[billpater]

The disks I used to reinstall were a set of 5 disks named "hp quickrestore system
recovery Cd's" (microsoft windows XP Home SP1) After they were installed the screen
said it could not find an OS,then I put in the hp notebook Operating System CD in.
The laptop seems to work ok except for the two things I origanally asked about.
 Thanks for the help

[JJ 3000]

One of those five disks should say "drivers" or "drivers and utilities" or something similar on it. Do you have it?

[billpater]

The disks are numbered 1 thru 5 with no other info on them, when the first disk was
done it said to install the second one, and so on.