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Shutting down too fast problem!!!

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Junior77

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I can't seem to find the download for the patch to delay the shutting down time so files won't get corrupted. Anyone know where this is?

I'm running W2k sp1.
 
I was not aware of a problem with quick shutdowns in Win2k. I think what you may have heard it for Win9x. Win2k/NT takes time to write all unsaved data to disk. If there is something that has come up recently, I have not heard about it and I have not had any problems to date.
 
i've found the problem to be with ata-100 support and DMA mode. I only had the problem when i ran my 75GXP in mode 5(ata-100) and with DMA turned on. When in PIO it didn't do that. So seeing as ata-100 doesn't really do that much i d-loaded ibm's tool that allows you to switch modes and now i'm running ata-66 with DMA and i'm not having that problem.

dave
 
that problem was with win98 or me, and there was apatch to download from windows update to take care of it. i don't think that applies to win2k
 
Thanks!!

I ask because i built my computer with ME and found the patch on windows update (I think). Then when i went to 2k, I didn't notice the patch available. Just didn't want to start crashing because of that.
 
I still think that the way Win2k shuts down eliminates any problem with files getting corrupted. The original problem with Win9x was that it shut down too fast and the data still in the disk cache was lost. But, like I said before Win2k takes time to write all unsaved data to the disk, which would allow the data in the cache to be written to the disk and cleared out of the cache.
 
Nightowl, Win2K, doesn't take it's time to clean out the cache onto the harddisk before shutting down. I experienced corrupted registries under Win2K twice because of this problem before I found the fix...

That problem does in fact happen in Win2K. What you have to do is install Win2K or change the current configuration to a standard pc without ACPI support. You can enable APM afterwards. Check this thread, and the other threads linked in it for more information:

http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=313173&highlight_key=y&keyword1=dcdomain

The problem should be taken care of in SP2 along with a bunch of other problems (ata100 support). However MS is taking it's freaking time releasing it...
 
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