[Cardiac]

Sometimes my computer won't shut down, it hanges up at the
Windows (shutdown) screen. At that point I have to manually turn it off. A couple of times I've had to unplug it!
I believe this is a Win98se issue as a friend is having the same problem with his computer.

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Dale
Lowered '67 Elcamino
ZZ430HP / Modified 4L60
"Canyon Carver"
'67 Elcamino
at the track

 

[BobMcC]

There's a whole bunch of possible reasons why Win 98 will not shut down. Go to the Mictosoft Knowledge Base and look at the different reasons and match one of them up with what your particular setup is.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;kbhowto&sd=GN&ln=EN-US&FR=0
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Bob McCormick
69 Malibu project


[This message has been edited by BobMcC (edited 01-04-2003).]

 

[Chevello]

Don't bother unplugging, just hold the power button down for 5 seconds or until it shuts off.
One of my machines does the same thing and has done it for a couple of years. All I do is wait til the HDD light quits fiddling and shut it off.
K

 

[slowtalker]

it's old technology. chuck it and upgrade to something better

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[Guest]

mine just had this problem, running windows 98. my problem seemed to be the klez virus. I bought an updated virus scan and had 13 files infected. I cleaned it up and shutdown was not a problem anymore.

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Michael


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69 malibu convertible
69 malibu h/t 307/pg
<<this space reserved for 66/67 chevelle BB/4spd>>
01 gmc sierra

 

[Cardiac]

Thanks for your help guys, but problem solved

I had a friend take a look at it and resolved the issue.
Evidently there was a conflict between the sound card & video drivers. I don't know how to explain it other than it works great now.
He also installed the latest video driver for the G-Force 4 (440-MX)
He ran this neat virus checker that seeks out almost ALL known virus's. He has to keep up on that sort of stuff since he is computer repair technician.



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Dale
Lowered '67 Elcamino
ZZ430HP / Modified 4L60
"Canyon Carver"
'67 Elcamino
at the track

 

[Beldarr]

There is a known problem of win98SE not shutting down properly and hanging. There is a file "supplement" on the "upgrade windows" site (gateway has it on their restoration CD).

It's a common enough problem, I have had a few that do, and a few that don't - just download the file from the upgrade site.

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Tommy B.
71-72 Malibu
"I'm high all right, but on the real stuff
High octane gasoline
A clean windshield
And a shoe shine"

 

[Midnight Marauder]

Also, using a windows exit soundfile and having your anti virus scanning floppy drives on exit will cause this as well. I always kill the exit sound file for this reason. If its corrupted it will hang the machine. Just an FYI, i know its already fixed.

And yeah, the best answer is dump 98 for atleast Win2K.