win 98 shut down issue

[devlish96]

ohh man,...are you kidding me!?! dude, did you check for physical defects with the mobo and expansion cards?

 

[lheggie]

checked for defects. I redid what i had posted that worked earlier. And again the system would shut down did a test of 10 shut downs and on the 10th shutdown it restarted instead of shutting down. So, i redid the steps again and the system shutdown for 5 tests. I went to bed got up this morning and then the system restarts on shutdown. grrr real pain !!!! I think that i am getting close with this.

 

[lheggie]

Its seems like something is running at shutdown that is preventing the system from shutting down. Several times i have been given the screen that says program is not responding ... do you want to end task, wait or cancel. If i click cancel and wait it will shut down sometimes but not all of the time.

 

[lheggie]

ok forget that .. it will not shut down at all now.. grrrr pain in rear.

 

[lheggie]

when i hit ctrl/alt/delete right before shut down this is what is still running :

Explorer
systray
atitask
aticwd32

 

[lheggie]

ok .. now with the advanced power management support disabled .. it will shut down totally. i am letting it sit for a while and will try restarting and shutting down again to see if it still works with it disabled.

 

[lheggie]

ok.. here is what is happening. I disabled the advanced power management support. Shut down and restarted the system... i then shutdown the computer totally successfully. After that i let the computer sit for a while and restarted and shut down and it shut down totally. then i did it again just to be sure. So, I decided to unplug the computer from the surge protector let it site for 10 minutes. plugged it back in and without even touching the power the computer booted up. I then attempted to shut down the computer and it restarted. does this help at all? Any suggestions or ideas?

thanks in advances for your help!!

 

[lheggie]

ok .. computer was shut down ... i am sitting here typing message and all of a sudden i hear it booting up. no one touched it... it just booted up on its own. It has been shut down for like 10 to 15 minutes

 

[devlish96]

DAM!!! thats weird crap going on....do you believe in ghosts??

 

[devlish96]

sounds like theres something not right in the "power management" in the bios. go to the bios look for this tab/option or something that says power. read each detail carefully....or load optimized settings(theres a particular key that you have to press to load it) otherwise you'll have to set it one by one.