You might try running msconfig from start-run, and if you click the
"advanced" tab you should see an option to disable fast shutdown.  This
cured the same thing on my computer.  Good luck.

Eric Wertman

At 09:21 AM 09/06/1999 -1000, you wrote:
>Hi listers;
>
>Recently upgraded to win98se from win98, problem is when I go to shutdown it
>just reboots even though the shutdown is checked on the menu. The only way I
>can shut down is to check reboot to ms-dos prompt and then manually turn the
>computer off, it worked fine before the upgrade shutting itself down and off.
>
>iwill BD100 motherboard
>PII 400
>256M sdram
>viper 550-16M ram AGP
>usr 56K winmodem
>
>It seems fine except for that one glitch.
>
>TIA
>Wayne Aiello
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