The first thing I'd try is going back into your BIOS and enabling power management to see if that gets rid of the numlock light.  Win 98.1's power management was, if I remember correctly, problemmatical.
>
>I have windows 98 installed on a generic Intel machine (Celeron 400
>Pentium II and ABIT mother board).  A few weeks ago I installed a new
>60GB hard drive and reinstalled Windows 98 on a 7.9 GB "C:" partition
>on the new drive.
>Here is the problem I am facing:
>When I shut down Windows from Start->Shut Down->Shut Down, the
>computer seemingly shuts down. I see the message saying "It is safe
>to shutdown the computer" and as expected the computer powers down. I
>do not hear the CPU fan running and the monitor goes dark (though I
>have to switch it off as it is powered separately).  The problem is,
>I still see the "Num Lock" light ON on the keyboard. If I press the
>"Num Lock" key the light stays ON. If, at this point, I unplug the
>keyboard the light goes OFF but when I plug the keyboard back in, it
>comes back ON.  I assume (please correct me if I am wrong) that the
>computer is not shut down completely. It is bothering me a lot.  So
>to get a complete shut down, I push the POWER ON switch on the box
>that makes the computer boots up (I was hoping that Num Lock would
>turn OFF).  During the boot up if I push the power switch again
>before the Windows loads (right where I see the info about my system)
>the computer power downs but this time it powers down completely i.e.
>I do not see the "Num Lock" light ON. Before the reinstall of windows
>I was able to achieve the complete shut down from the Start->Shut
>Down menu and I did not have to go through hoops to get the complete
>shut down.
>
>4.  I have turned the power management off in BIOS.  On windows 98 I
>have custom power management where every things stays on (every
>setting is "Never").
>
>
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