Same old shutdown question but I've tried EVERYTHING!!!! Help!!!

[Bglad]

I know this question has been asked many times but I can't get Win98 to shut down. It restarts when I choose shutdown. I've already gone through the MS help files. I've downloaded the shutdown patch. I've even tried shutting down form a desktop shortcut with a dos shutdown command.

Does anybody know what causes this or how to fix it??? It can't be good to shutdown by hitting the off switch all the time.

Thanks

 

[Gl4di4tor]

Goddamn Microsoft for their bug infested operating system! Sorry man, I don't know how to help you, besides to tell you to switch to Linux. However, Windows 2000 is pretty good, this operating system has only 500 bugs.

 

[Bleep]

<< Goddamn Microsoft for their bug infested operating system >>


What kind of help is this???? Not even good advice.
I had this problem with a machine that came to me for repairs I will have to go through my files to find a little help, I dont remember off the top of my head what the fix finally was, give me a day or so and I will see if I can find the answer for you.
Bleep

 

[lobsta1]

Hey BGLAD, the other night i dnloaded &amp; installed the update for mapped drvs. shutdown from MS.
Afterwards I was unable to shutdown at all. Even powering off, as soon as I let go of the button,
instant reboot. MS said for uninstall, search for 260067un.inf on my sys. Right click and uninstall. Since then I've been OK.

 

[Bglad]

OK
After a lot of messing around, I think this is a problem with my wake on lan with one of my network cards. Hmmmmm I got a new mobo recently (Asus a7v133) but it didn't do this for the first couple of weeks. It just started.

Should wake on lan start the computer when it is off or just wake it up when it is on stand by?

Curious thing is it restarts even when the wake on lan tether is disconnected.

Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[HansHurt]

Go in to your bios and check you power settings and such...also check your wake on lan option in there....check it all out, there has to be a solution to this, and I bet it is an easy one in the end.

 

[JestaMan]

Wake on Lan will turn on the computer when it is off, Awake on Lan will get it out of sleep mode but not turn it on if it is off. Have had tons of problems differentiating between wake on lan and awake on lan cards.

 

[GregMal]

When I last updated my PC and installed Win98SE I did this.
Disable all PC Green, monitoring, power mgmt stuff in BIOS.
Then do the same in windows.
Reboot.
Goto device manager.
In System Devices remove Advanced Power Management.
Reboot.
I've never had a shutdown problem since.......
Greg

 

[Nolte]

Have you tried a BIOS update?

I built a PC last week with an ASUS Motherboard (CUV4X-E) that after Win98 was installed, with or without drivers for anything, would reboot when trying to shutdown. A BIOS flash fixed my problem.

May possably fix yours too.

Nolte

 

[mastertech01]

Ive often seen this problem when there is an IRQ conflict, especially with network cards. I havent had a problem with this possibly because I use USB networks.. have you tried switching slots? Might just have to disable wake on lan.

 

[michec]

I've been experiencing this a bit with a few of my systems. One is a T-bird 800 on an Asus A7V and the other is a Coppermine 750E on a MSI BX Master. Both are running Win98SE. The problem is that if either system goes into standby (if the monitor blanks out from inactivity), either I can't get the display to come out of standby or when I shutdown, it reboots.

The way I've worked around it is to disable all power management. Right-click on your destop, select screen saver, click on settings, set power schemes to always on, system standby to never, turn off monitor to never, and turn off hard disk to never. Then set a screen saver. Doing this, I never have the monitor blanking out on the Intel system or the reboot on shutdown with the AMD system. Of course, I'd love to find a better fix than what I'm doing now.

If you're having problems shutting down immediately after booting up (i.e. not experiencing any type of standby or sleep mode), you have a worse case than I had.

As for shutting down via power switch, when I was having the reboot on shutdown problem on my T-bird system, I'd let the system reboot and press &quot;control-F5&quot; once all the CMOS stuff was checked. Then I hold the power button for 4 seconds to shut down the computer manually. You could also press F8 and select the command prompt option and then shut down manually from there. As long as it doesn't get to loading Windows, turning off the system manually with the power switch isn't a bad thing.