W98SE has garbled display at shutdown

[porty]

At shutdown, when the screen should be showing logow.sys, or 'Windows is now shutting down', the display becomes garbled, ie it turns into a mass of small, vertical blue and white stripes.

If I substitute the logos.sys, ' It's safe to shutdown etc', by renaming it from logos to logow, the stripes become black and yellow, so it's obviously pulling the colors from those bitmaps.

The bootup splash screen, logo.sys, displays normally, as do all other displays - it's only at shutdown that this happens.

The machine has the W98 shutdown bug, and I've tried every suggested fix on this forum without success, but I don't know if this a factor or not.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

TIA

 

[Enkrypted]

Have you tried to open the logow & logos .sys files in Paint to see if they appear normal??

 

[edfair]

What other programs could be changing your settings between bootup and shutdown?
Shutdown bug shouldn't affect it at all.
Have you tried the shutdown shortcut on the desktop? Ed Fair
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[Enkrypted]

It could just be a case of corrupted files...I would run the System File Checker to see if it finds any of those files to be changed in anyway...

 

[porty]

Enkrypted and Edfair - Thanks for your responses. The logo files open normally in Paint, so they don't appear to be faulty. And the W98SE installation is almost new, so there shouldn't be any file damage. In fact, it did the same thing on the previous install, so there seems to be a common thread here.
I can't think of any program that might be having an effect on the GFX display. In all other respects the display is normal.
Re the shutdown, I've tried all the usual fixes, including the 'rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows' thing (if that's what you meant by the desktop shortcut) and nothing works.
However, FWIW, I have come up with a couple of fixes myself for the shutdown bug, so I'll post them here in case they help anyone else.

After a stalled shutdown, it occurred to me that, after rebooting, provided that Windows DIDN'T call for Scandisk to run, the shutdown process must have pretty much completed
itself, even though it appeared to have stalled.

So I de-activated logow.sys ('Windows is Shutting Down') by renaming it to logow.old, then renamed logos.sys ('It's Safe to Turn Off Your Computer') to logow.sys.

This means that the 'It's Safe...' message appears on screen, instead of the 'Windows is Shutting Down', thus prompting the user to push the 'Off'button, with no harm done.

As I said, this should ONLY be done if the machine doesn't call for Scandisk to run after the forced shutdown described above.

My second fix is to use a little app called Shutdown.exe (there may be others that will do the same job)

I created a desktop shortcut to Shutdown.exe and in the command line of the shortcut I added the switch '/msdos', which makes the program close down Windows and move into DOS. From there, of course, the user can hit the
'Off' button with immunity.

 

[edfair]

Change the display to standard svga and see what happens. Or to standard vga. Or change the monitor to standard type.
Your gfx drivers may be faulty, or may be setting something up with the monitor that is incompatible.
On boot up you are in VGA until the drivers load.
You might also try getting a bootlog text file and look in it to see if you are getting any errors with the graphics. Ed Fair
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