Win 98 Shut Down Prob

I recently built a new machine an installed Win 98SE on it and ran into a major annoyance. When I shut down my system it goes from the desktop, the shut down screen blink a litle bit ditorted, then it turns off. When I turn y PC back on, all my basic settings are gone. My icon config is set to default along with all my other personal setting. I tried installing the shut down patch, but it did nothing at all. I have an Abt BE6-2 motherboard and an oem celeron processor. Does anyone have any ideas because for now I have gone back to Win 95b?

Not sure but.... It sounds as though you were suffering from a dodgy display driver. If your system doesn't shut down sucessfully the icons and preferences would not have been saved.

Cheers
Scutter

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And Control Enter STILL wont let me post a reply.
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My display driver should have no effect on my this problem, but I did try changing them to the newest and then to the latest reference driver.

MS has a fix for this at their web site. What is happening is the system is not shutting down corectly. MS knows about it and put a fix out for it. I have several machines that were upgraded from 98 to SE that have this problem as well. Until I figure out how to fix the bug without having each machine go to the update page on their website, I am holding off upgrading those ACERS, but the others are already done with no problem.