win98se shutdown problem

[saimike]

hi guys,

i cant seem to shutdown win98se without it hanging on the "shutting down ... " screen with the win logo. when i try to restart, sometimes it reboots successfully and sometimes it doesnt. how do i correct this? pls dont tell me to reinstall win98se ... that would majorly suck ... thanks

 

[SaturnX]

Hrmm... have you checked Windows Update and downloaded the Windows ShutDown Patch (it disables Fast Shut Down) or if you haven't, goto Start>Run>msconfig and I think check under the advanced button and uncheck fast shut down. (forget where it is exactly swtiched to Win2K). Also look for any hardware conflicts IRQs etc..

--Mark

 

[yazz]

if that does not work try going into the Device Manager and find PCI BUS. disable IRQ steering and click the USE BIOS button.

have fun...

 

[Zab]

yazz, what does that do exactly?

 

[saimike]

i think i downloaded the ms shutdown thing, but i'll try the rest of the stuff. what does the pci irq steering thing do? what's the effect of using bios for that? thanks!

 

[aUt0eXebat]

if you do d/l the patch and that dosnt work, do what yazz said. all that does is the BIOS controls the IRQ settings for everything, instead of windows doing it. THat should work.

 

[badtz42]

I had the same problem. I would have to click reboot and then shut the computer down manually when it started to reboot. Even reinstalling Win98SE didn't fix it. I was never able to fix it :frown: I've upgraded to Win2k since though

 

[saimike]

disabling the pci steering worked! thanks guys!

 

[snoogans]

There was a patch for that problem with ATA-100 Hard Drives with 2MB of cache. I'm at work so I can't try it yet but I'll see if disabling PCI steering works. If not (or just because you wanna be nice) could anyone direct me to the said ATA-100 fix? Searched MS, no luck...searched some tech sites and still no luck. Thanks

 

[Cnuke]

Just as a side note, going into msconfig and cleaning helps to. Found on an issue with my network a client of AS/400 was causing it and a patch was aqired from them to fix problem.