Hi gang, A client just purchased an HP Pavilion 6545C computer and brought it to me to load up a pile of software titles, install a NetGear FA310TX NIC, and do some organization for him. I setup a permanent swap file, installed all of the software, installed the NIC, installed all windows 98 SE updates, updated Office 97 to SR-2b, ran ScanDisk and DeFrag. After I finished all of that, I shut down the computer. But, it hangs at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. The only way to get it to shut off is yanking the plug or holding the OFF button in for 5-10 seconds. Upon reboot, everything is OK - no Scandisk or any note of not closing Windows properly. I have repeatedly shutdown and rebooted with it consistently freezing at the shutting down screen. I went to the HP 6500 Series Users Forum and saw at least 6 postings describing the same problem. Some suggestions, none of which helped. One was to disable hardware power control in BIOS, which I did. HP Pavilion 6545C with 500MHz Celeron / 128kb cache. 64 MB RAM (factory installed) 13 GB Western Digital HD (factory installed) HP CD-RW (factory installed) drive Video is on the motherboard USR modem (factory installed) Netgear FA-310TX network card (I installed) HP expanded (internet/cd/plus) keyboard HP wheel mouse. Windows 98, Second Ed. Any Ideas would be appreciated. TIA, Jerry Rasmussen Rasmussen & Bucklin Associates Coral Springs, FL [log in to unmask] (954)345-9129; FAX: (954)345-7889 Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html