Why does Win98 not restart when I tell it to??

[TheMonkeyPit]

I put together a system last night and installed Windows98 Second Edition. Now if I go to shutdown and select restart, Windows shuts down and the screen goes black, but the system never restarts. I have to press the reset button to get it to boot back up.

The system has:

AMD 1.4ghz Thunderbird
Asus A7M266
512MB DDR
IBM 60GB 7200rpm
Pioneer DVD-106S
Yamaha 20x10x40
Asus v8200 Deluxe Geforce3
Hercules Game Theater XP
Netgear FA311 NIC
US Robotics 56K Win Modem PCI
Antec SX1040

I installed the DVD, CDRW, video card, and sound card with no problems. Every time Windows had to restart it would boot back up normally. Then I installed the Netgear NIC, and thats around when this problem started. I then installed AOL 5.0 (This person needs it, so I had no choice) and it of course needed to restart my computer a few times, and each time I had to press reset because the screen went black and the system just hung. This happens anytime I try to restart Windows now. The monitor comes up with a message saying no signal, the hard drive continues to read for a short time, and the system actually sounds like it might be restarting, but nothing ever comes back on the screen until I press reset.

Anyone know what's going on here?? Thanks.

 

[Asif]

If i'm not mistaken, M$ has a "patch" for W98 shutdown issues, perhaps it will help

here

 

[TheMonkeyPit]

Thanks, I'll try that later and let you know if it works.

 

[librarian]

Hmmmmmmmm.... Try looking at the Advanced Power Management (or what ever your bios calls is) and see if your install of the netsys has disabled the APM. -Luck

 

[rw120555]

Here is one of many MS knowledge base articles on shutdown problems.

 

[yakko]

Create a shortcut on the desktop with this path --> C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 2 <-- and it will restart.