Shutdown Problems with W98

[mojotiger]

Man I'm 'boput to lose my mind. Trying to help a friend with an e-tower366i2 (i know, i know)and I'm getting nowhere fast. At shutdown, it restarts! I have disbled APM, etc and then at shutdown (manual) it won't restart without un-plugging and re-plugging the power cord. What am I missing & will a reformat cure it?

This dadgum e-tower is making me look bad here. Any ideas, e-mail 'em to me or post here. e-mail: [email protected]

Thanks!

[Eagle PC Diagnostech]

Pull the plug for your keyboard and then try to shut it down.
eMachines are noted for a bad keyboard not letting Windows shutdown.

[mojotiger]

It does it with different keyboards. Anything that you can recommend taht might work???

(I've seen some of the other problems y'all have solved and I'm impressed.)

Thanks.

[USA 1]

Tell your buddy "that e-machines suck"
Sorry ! I won't flame...
Has he installed a third party video card?
Is it a fresh install?
APM in the BIOS is shut off I take it?
Does it scnadisk on restart?

There are many things that can cause this,AGP 2X and 4X settings and cards I have found to do this as well as drivers for some cards when switching between ATI software drivers and ....Say NVIDIA drivers.......
Let us know !...............

[mojotiger]

No 3rd party video card, etc. APM turned off and back on. It just keeps acting up. It all started when his Seagate(peeeyuw!) hard drive died, I installed a Maxtor 30gb hd, i did a clean install of w98SE (he couldn't find his restore cd) and it worked fine, except for the dhutdown problem. Now, I have used his restore cd and re-installed the e-machine stuff and w98SE (without a format) and it still does this. I'm out of ideas.
Any other suggestions?

THNX!!

[Eagle PC Diagnostech]

Don't worry about it shutting down.

Sometime in the near future it won't power up at all. This is due to a bad power supply that almost every eMachine has and could be a start of your shutdown problem.

Did you install the 98 shutdown patch from Windows Update?

[mojotiger]

NO shutdown patch. Can you give me more details?

Will a reformat cure it?

[Eagle PC Diagnostech]

<a href="http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/?IE" target="_blank">http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/?IE</a>

OR THIS ONE


<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/wurecommended/s_wufeatured/win98se/" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/wurecommended/s_wufeatured/win98se/</a>

[Sly]

Have you checked the "MSCONFIG Adavanced Button" Disable fast shutdown box is checked.... Left unchecked it will put the emachines in a repeteing restart.

just a thought..

[rrockey]

and if that doesn't do it try disabling support for usb legacy devices in the bios.

That has kept me from shutting down in the past.

[DANIMAL]

90% sure it's a bad PSU.if all these other things have not worked.