win98 won't shutdown - At ALL stays at desktop!!

[Shard92]

I know win98 has shutdown problems but this is rediculus I have a machine in PII-266 64Mb EDO DIMM ( yes EDO DIMM ) 16mb ATI video, sb16, and an connexant winmodem. The Problem was their video card. The computer would only boot occasionally with their card. I substituted a few cards ( junk ones at first, not wanting to loose a good card on bad board) very consistant booting. replaced with another ATI and now that I have the drivers loaded the conputer will not shutdown. I turned off all programs I can see, both in the systray and with Ctrl-Alt-Del and it still does it. First it just said this progam is busy windows can't shut it down but didn't id the prog. After I shut everything down it now says win can't shutdown explorer as it is busy. I did run a virus scan and will update my defs today and try again, but.... Any other ideas?

GLSmith

[Nighthand]

Dumb question, but when you tried the other ATI card, did you uninstall the last set of drivers and then install new drivers? I had a headache upgrading from a ATI Rage to a ATI Radeon, simply because I had not unloaded old drivers.

[Shard92]

Not a Dumb question at all! No I did not remove the "old" drivers because I replaced with a virtually identical card. Same chipset same ram, etc. Their is a slight difference in appearance but that is all! I have thought of changing the driver to the one we use just in case it's more up to date. Right now it is running a virus scan and boy do they have a lot of junk to scan! I'll let you know more about the drivers in a second, thanks for the idea though! I thought of it afterwards but since someone else mentioned it I might as well try updating it.

GLSmith

[Shard92]

In case you are interested I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver for the video ( Same driver though I believe they were dif. ver. ) and the thing seems completely stable again. Thanks


GLSmith