Computer "hangs" when shutting down

[Gstanfor]

Hi,

I'm currently running a basic home LAN on my two home machines, using WIN98 SE, a crossover cable & generic Realtek 10mbit pci cards.

This works very well. The problem I'm having comes about with two other PC's that I support, and recently installed the same cards in for ease of support/maintenance (they are normally stand alone PC's not connected to any network).

The cards installed without a hitch, all required protocols went on smoothly.

The pc's boot up fine with the cards in and not connected to anything else, but when you shut the pc's down, they appear to shut down normally, then get stuck on the "Windows is shutting down" screen forever. They can simply be manually turned off at this point, but that is messy and unwanted. (on my network, shutting down one pc with the other pc already off does not result in this problem.)

How do I stop the PC's from doing this?

Thanks

Greg

 

[LordOfAll]

TRy disabling fast shutdowns.

 

[Ladi]

Assuming all machines are win98, do you have the shutdown patch installed? http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/Win98SE/Default.asp

Also, if you're sharing drives, look into this update: http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/q260067/Default.asp

~Ladi