Two major reasons:
1) driver conflict / system resources conflict - eg some devices don't like
to share IRQ, sometimes you need latest driver even current driver seems
working fine.
2) software - if you have software installed and running at background all
the time, you'd better check if you can get some software update, I've seen
too many software that suppose to fix problems but they cause more problems
then they may fix. (eg old Norton Anti virus may cause system can't
shutdown/restart problem, late norton update solved the problem)

By personal experience, I do NOT trust any of the following software:
Anti viruses - I do use anti-v program, but never ever enable
auto-protection.
Crash guard - they will crash system before anything else does, good job,
well done.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Bogert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:07 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows shutdown problem


> How come when I try to shutdown Win98SE on my machine it won't shutdown?
The floppy drive comes on and stays on while the Windows is shutting down
screen comes on and then nothing happens. I've installed the Windows
shutdown upgrade and it didn't have any effect on this problem.
Otherwise--everything else works fine. Need help. Thanks  Ed Bogert
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