Reply to Amaretto747 re ASUS P5A shutdown problem

[JesseKnows]

Thank you for replying.

I tried your suggestion. Indeed, after flashing 1007.A and reinstalling Windows 98 SE, shutdown worked. Much cheered, I reflashed to 1011.003, and was disappointed to find that shutdown again doesn't work. I flashed back and forth, and consistently, 1011.003 doesn't shut down, and 1007.A doesn't recognize the K6-III.

My hardware:
P5A, K6-III/450 at 550.
3Com 3C905-TX with Windows 98 SE drivers.
CL500A video card (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5465) AGP w/4MB RAMBAS DRAM.
SCSI card, based on NCR 53C810 chip, P5A BIOS recognized. Windows 98 SE drivers.
3 (4GB, 2GB, 1GB) SCSI hard drives, Plextor X8 SCSI CD-ROM.

Any other ideas? Anyone else?

JesseKnows (now perplexed)

 

[JesseKnows]

I now tried to remove ACPI, and shutdown works. No suspend, but that's not a concern.

To remove ACPI support:
Run Regedit.
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Detect, add a String value called ACPIOption, and set it to 2.

In Control Panel, click Add/Remove Hardware and have it run full detection.

The settings for ACPIOption are as follows:

0 (or not present) ? Detect only ACPI BIOSs on good list.

1 ? Detect any ACPI BIOS.

2 ? Do not detect ACPI BIOSs (remove support if installed).

JesseKnows
(now more informed)

 

[Amaretto747]

That's good to hear, sorry my suggestion didn't work for you though. Have you tried downloading an update from Windows 98 thats supposed to fix some sort of shutdown problem? I don't have the link for it but you might want to check windows 98 website if not, I can email you the files. There's 2 of them.