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win98 shutdown problem BIOS upgrade?
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| I have installed win98 SE in a Pentium 266mHz and at shutdown it dose not
shut down rather it hangs at the point where it says "windows is shutting
down"
I have tried to install the patch from Microsoft site for this problem but
it did not solve the problem.
I want to upgrade the BIOS.
Does anyone know of any other good way to solve this problem?
If I have to go ahead with BIOS upgrade, how should I go about it? (detailed
guideline since BIOS is a delicate issue)
Thanks
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| Andy Barkl 2003-02-24, 6:24 pm |
| "an" <henry@libero.it> wrote in message
news:T9y6a.152690$YG2.4533085@twister1.libero.it...
> I have installed win98 SE in a Pentium 266mHz and at shutdown it dose not
> shut down rather it hangs at the point where it says "windows is shutting
> down"
>
> I have tried to install the patch from Microsoft site for this problem but
> it did not solve the problem.
> I want to upgrade the BIOS.
>
> Does anyone know of any other good way to solve this problem?
>
> If I have to go ahead with BIOS upgrade, how should I go about it?
(detailed
> guideline since BIOS is a delicate issue)
> Thanks
Download the BIOS update and follow the instructions given.
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| slaot@aol.com 2003-02-24, 7:24 pm |
| On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:46:59 GMT, "an" <henry@libero.it> wrote:
>I have installed win98 SE in a Pentium 266mHz and at shutdown it dose not
>shut down rather it hangs at the point where it says "windows is shutting
>down"
Look in the BIOS and see if it had POWER options. If it does then try
to set them opposite of what they are. Reboot then see if it works.
Reset and reboot again might be in order.
The BIOS in that box might not have the auto shutdown powr function.
I got it on my super seven P5 233 board. So the 266 might still not
have it.
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| Igor Smeghead 2003-02-25, 9:24 pm |
| I run into this constantly at work. I have a floppy with a "power
patch" that MS offered to relieve this. According to the Knowledge
Base article that linked to the "patch", if it doesn't work you
should......upgrade to ME.......hahahaha ...(I'm not kidding)
It only works about half of the time. I've also place the POWER
OPTIONS settings to Never for all fields. For some reason, not
allowing the monitor to shut off, or disks to spin down during
operations seems to result in less system hangs when shutting down.
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| On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:27:39 GMT, Igor Smeghead
<ekilgore@ameritech.net> wrote:
>I run into this constantly at work. I have a floppy with a "power
>patch" that MS offered to relieve this. According to the Knowledge
>Base article that linked to the "patch", if it doesn't work you
>should......upgrade to ME.......hahahaha ...(I'm not kidding)
>It only works about half of the time. I've also place the POWER
>OPTIONS settings to Never for all fields. For some reason, not
>allowing the monitor to shut off, or disks to spin down during
>operations seems to result in less system hangs when shutting down.
I have encountered this also on several machines.
I used 3 patches from MS; Win98 Shutdown Supplement, another pathc for
intermediate NDIS drivers, and a patch for the case when you have
mapped network drives.
243199, 260067, and 4756 were the KB references (IIRC).
Some or all 3 helps, but then still I have problems, and usually it's
either AV program (McAfee is famous for its quirks) or the Power
saving options cause issues, and I usually disable all Power Savings
options in BIOS and in the OS. Furthermore depending on your chipset
you may need to install VIA 4-in-1 drivers, Intel chipset drivers and
possibly disable PCI IRQ Steering options as well!
There is a general Win98 shutdown problems trouble-shooting in MSKB,
and it lists lots of items to check and test!
BIOS upgrade may not help, as win98(/SE) may not be able to deal with
the new BIOS, since the OS is obsolete (not supported), and one of the
articles even refer to renaming a bios.vxd or similar file, so that OS
does not rely on BIOS for various functions, in case the BIOS is not a
supported BIOS!
Tell us more if something works!
L.O.
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