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WinME doesn't shut down properly - please help

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SiliconCowgirl

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I just installed WinME on a cleanly formatted hard drive. I had Win98 on the machine for a long time, and never had this problem before. When I try to shut down the computer, I never get the "It is safe to turn off your computer" screen. My motherboard (Abit BH6) usually automatically powers down at this point, but it isn't doing that now. When I restart the computer, it acknowledges that it did not shut down properly and runs Scandisk.

Putting the computer on standby works fine, but I would like to be able to shut the computer down as well.

Any ideas what the problem is, and how to fix it? Or should I just go back to 98? I'm tempted...
 
My mother had this problem with her HP machine. Her problem turned out to be the active desktop. If you're not using the active desktop, try turning it off and see if that helps. Worked for her. Good luck.

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Thank you...I'll try that.
Just in case it doesn't work, I'm still looking for fixes. I tried everything the MS troubleshooter suggests: I turned off the Start programs, I disabled each of my sound, video, and network devices in turn, and all the other stuff they tell you to do. It took me three hours :disgust: , but it still didn't help.

I found on the MS site something about Creative Labs legacy/emulation drivers causing this problem in Win98, and I noticed that one of the devices listed on my Device Manager is a Soundblaster 16 Emulation. Any input on this, or what to do with it? I have a SoundBlaster Live Value, and installed my drivers again from the creative labs cdrom. I don't know where the Emulation thing came from, since i've never seen that before.

Ugh!

 
SB 16 emulation is for older DOS games that needed a specific IRQ, DMA numbers to properly use sound. I remeber having the original X-Wing game, Maniac Mansion, and a couple of other older DOS games back in the early 90's that needed these number (IRQ 5, 1 DMA 0) to use sound.

When I had ME installed I had the same problem with that I just disabled it in device manager. As long as your not playing any legacy DOS games you should be fine

Ryan
 
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