Win98 hangs on shutdown

[krugan]

Does anyone know what the problem is that win98 hangs on the shutdown and restart screen? I've had this problem on 3 different machines now. Is there a value I can add or delete somewhere in the registry to make it shutdown all the way?

[Archer]

Refer to Microsofts Knowledge base Q202633 for ideas.

[shadow1]

You have a prog that doesn't finish or shutdown. Can you shutdown in safe mode?

[DANIMAL]

hit crtl alt del when that happens and end task on the remaining things. as soon as it shuts down properly you will know the program having the problem.
Reinstall the program if possible.

[krugan]

Hi guys, thanks for responding. Andi thanks for the Microsoft suggestion, shoulda went there in the first place.

To answer a few questions, When I shutdown or try to restart it hangs at "windows is shutting down". I can turn it off after waiting a few seconds and not have any problems with it going through scandisk but it's annoying when I want to restart.

I have tried the msconfig and disabled all of the startup programs, video, ini/config files etc but it still hangs. When I do boot into safe mode it will shutdown. I've installed a patch from microsoft for 98SE and that hasn't helped either so I'll just keep trying disabling some more things microsoft suggests.

I don't think it is a driver issue with any of my harware because when I do a fresh install it will shutdown it just happens over a period of time and I never noticed which program it started doing it at.

[Wildman6971]

Does your video card have an irq assigned to it in the BIOS. It should.

[Archer]

Corrupt shutdown sound files can also cause this problem also programs that fail to shutdown correctly [perhaps a patch has been applied and got corrupt].Does it shut down in safe mode correclty?

[rblockmon]

Okay, I've seen this situation before on my computer. I believe it's a power supply issue either in the windows, the bios, or just the power supply it's self. Because when I switched cases with different power supplies, I went to AT(I think that's what they're called) to ATX, my computer shutdown fine! Is your system atx??? Let us know!

Rblockmon

[miketasker]

There is an official Shutdown Patch issued by Microsoft, the issue affects Win 95, 98 and 98se.

If you drop an e-mail to me at [email protected] I will send it to you.

Mike the Techie

[Ya_know]

Perhaps you could post the URL or link to the MS location. Not to sound Skeptic, but I can't see anyone trusting something they get in an email from someone they met on a forum. No intended flame, just an observation. <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">

[miketasker]

Finally found it, well you can get it from here Shutdown Patch hope this helps.

[jettlag]

Lots of times this is relate to power management. I'm surprised no one mentioned this earlier.

Make sure to disable it in Win9x and BIOS.

The shutdown patch works on only some machines.

Also like people were saying it could be programs not shutting down properly in the backgroud. For testing purposes you should disable all items in startup group. Run msconfig and remove all check marks from startup tab. This will let the system shutdown right without annyoing apps like osa and findfast to give ya issues.

lag sucks....

JL

[Chosen One]

I've seen this issue with AMD K6 CPUs. Go into MSconfig (from the run prompt type msconfig) and check advanced I beleve. Then there should be an option that says "fast shutdown". Uncheck that and see what happens. If it's not selected, select it and see what happens.

[Damned Angel]

another cause that I have run into is unused network card. Seems like the nic is looking for a server to log off of and never shuts down cause it never gets a response. Verified by plugging in a test line to a machine that had been sitting on shutdown screen for over 20 min. Plugged the cable in and *poof* instant shutdown.