I often encounter shutdown problems on my W98 OS. The computer stops at the "Windows is shutting down" screen and I have no other choice but to turn the power off (even if the "It is now safe..." message didn't appear). So the next time I restart my computer it always checks for disk error(s) and it sometimes restores the registry setting too. Just recently, it failed to restore a good backup of my registry setting asking me to restart the computer over and over again. It says "Backing up registry setting..." then "Restoring registry setting..." then "Restart". I tried to re-install W98 but the problem persists. So I hope you guys out there help me on this one.<br><br>By the way, my computer is connected to a Win-NT Server. Both computers have Intel-PIII-500 processors.
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There is a myriad of reasons why this happens, but it all<br>boils down to w98. I'm using w98se. I don't know if that makes a difference between the versions. The latest <br>cause to a system was a patch I needed for VIA chipset.<br>You might want to check to see if there are any tsr's lingering around. If you e-mail me I'll send you a list <br>of possible causes. A little more info on your system would<br>be helpful. I do not know what, if any possible causes being connected to the server would do.Microsoft has a patch<br>for this problem at their sight. It hasn't worked for me, but it has for others.<br>
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This is a common problem with any version of Win98.<br><br>The main cause is the amount of Mapped drives that you have.<br>The only solution is a temporary patch from Microsoft but it will re-occur again and again. <br><br>I look after 30 units on a NT setup and half are down with the problem. The patch has worked fine on 6 that have reduced the number of drives mapped. The other 9 are still mapping 6 or more drives.<br><br>It also happens to stand alone machines that have drives over 6.4Gb that are split up to 4 or more drives.<br><br>The best thing I have found to aliviate this situation is to limit the number of drives to 3 at any one time and to download the patch for each unit.<br><br>I hope this is of some help to you.<br><br>Cheers Hunter.<br>
The patch did not correct the problem on my W98.<br><br>Rik <p>Rik Rasmussen<br><a href=mailto:hrasmussen@nc.rr.com>hrasmussen@nc.rr.com</a><br><a href= Rasmussen</a><br>Communications Maintenance Supervisor<br>
City of Durham, NC
City of Durham, NC
I have seen this problem occur in some systems that are loading a driver for ACPI power management. I have been able to correct this problem by disabling power management in the BIOS as well as setting the plug and play operating system option in the BIOS to yes. I have seen this problem occur many times for many different reasons but I've not seen this one addressed in the posts yet so I chose it as my response. Hope this helps you.
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At <A HREF=" TARGET="_new"> there are several "fixes" under the general terms "Windows 98SE Shutdown Problems". The one relative to the mapped drives is dated May 22, 2000. Its description is as follows:<br><br>"This update resolves the "Windows 98 Second Edition Mapped Drives Shutdown Update" issue, where Windows may stop responding if there are a significant number of mapped network drives on your computer. The larger the number of drives that are mapped, the more likely the problem may occur."<br><br>Since I have applied this patch, shutdowns have been successful. I have a minimum of 8 drives mapped to network drives -- sometimes more; but usually at least 8.
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