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

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

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.

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

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