Win98 hangs when shutting down

[matador]

I have a PII 400, 128MB RAM. <br>
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70% of the time i want to shut down, the system hangs at the end and it doesn't shut down. I need to restart and kill it at boot up so it won't give me scandisk everytime I start it up.<br>
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any ideas?

 

[guldan]

why not go straight to the source. Here is the address relating to shutdown problems:<br>
<A HREF="

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/0/96.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB&FR=0"

TARGET="_new">

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/0/96.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB&FR=0</A>

 

[glearias]

Have you tried to disable fast shutdown.It's in msconfig&gt;general tab&gt;advanced.Also is it second edition.If it is have you tried updating the bios.

 

[Technician]

Try going into the BIOS and disabling IRQ support for the video card.<br>
<br>
Gordon

 

[Alt255]

Try this:<br>
Create a shortcut on your desktop pointing to &quot;c:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows&quot;. (Without the quotes. If in doubt, paste the contents of the quote into the shortcut.) Call the shortcut &quot;Terminate&quot;. Double-click it and see-ya-later.<br>
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It has worked well on every 9x system I've encountered so far.<br>
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[Amateur]

As Guldan says. Go to the source. <A HREF="

http://support.microsoft.com/support/tshoot/default.asp"

TARGET="_new">

http://support.microsoft.com/support/tshoot/default.asp</A>.<br>

This one also helps to troubleshoot shutdown problems.<br>

 

[Cooker]

An easy cure is to create a shortcut on your desktop.<br>
In the target box type in &quot;C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows&quot; exactly without the Quotes. In the start in box type &quot;C:\windows&quot; again without the quotes.<br>
Now your all set when you want to shut down just doble click the shortcut you created and it will shutdown right away.

 

[haneik]

Diable virus check in the Bios, ensure CDrom jumper setting is not set to csel. I have found that the shutdown procedure in most cases are indirectly related to hardware misconfigurations.

 

[velvet]

Disable drive A: auto protect virus scan on boot up. Big problem with my Dell's and Norton.

 

[rhedgepe]

Check your startup folder delete every thing in it. Found offices products like findfast ect.. when I took them out shut down just fine&gt;

 

[jsh3323]

Use a boot disk and boot to an A: prompt. Type in SYS C: and hit enter. Reboot your PC and it will shutdown correctly.

 

[Alt255]

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