Tried everything- WinME still wont shut down properly.

[CodeOmega]

I just upgraded to WinME and I can not shut down properly. It freezes on a black screen just before shutting down. Then I have to use the power button to kill it. I have gone to the microsoft website and windows has all the updates. I used the help files and tried everything there and nothing helps. I have tried to create a bootlog file but for some reason it never gets created. I updated all of my drivers- and software. I even used programs to try and force a shut down- but nothing works. I think there was one time when I was able to shutdown correctly- and that was in safe mode. I then tried to run msconfig and do a selective startup but even with everything off- I still forze on shut down.
system specs:
PIII 450
192MB RAM
10gig western Digital HD
40.9gig Maxtor HD
VooDoo 5 5500 AGP
Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64D
TDK CD-RW 4X8X32
Toshiba DVD
Toshiba PCX 1100 Cable Modem

Any help would be appreciated. Thanx.

[CodeOmega]

ok- update- after a little playing around I found out that my pc dosen't freeze when shutting down- it just takes a super long time to fully shut down- like between 5 and 10 minutes. If anybody knows a solution- please help me out. Thanx.

[paranoid]

have you tried toying with the power management settings in the bios? I think this could help you out.

[CodeOmega]

Tried that- no change. Any other ideas?

[JeanneD]

something is not shutting down properly try disabling\removing things in startup then shut down, maybe you can find which one..I find a lot of times its the sound card, try removing it from device manager and letting windows redect it. Also have you gotten updated drivers for hardware you have that ME didn't have them for? Especially sound and video...

[Sowulo]

Originally posted by JeanneD:
something is not shutting down properly try disabling\removing things in startup then shut down, maybe you can find which one..I find a lot of times its the sound card, try removing it from device manager and letting windows redect it. Also have you gotten updated drivers for hardware you have that ME didn't have them for? Especially sound and video...

Not to mention antivirus software or NIC drivers...

[Jeff the Brit]

Just a long shot ... try disabling the Windows shut-down sound. A corrupted sound file will hang in there trying to play and Windows won't close till it's finished playing the sound.

[stupot71]

We had a similar grief we downgrades from 98 to ME and installed a speedstream dsl modem the computer would just not shut down it would go to the balck screen and stop our other me machines all shut down well so we swapped the modem to another machine and voila the first machine shutsdown great what it was is the modem is not compatable with ME so try shutting down your connection before shuting down your computer by the way the speedstream works great on a 98 machine your cable modem isnt USB by any chance??

[CodeOmega]

Originally posted by JeanneD:
something is not shutting down properly try disabling\removing things in startup then shut down, maybe you can find which one..I find a lot of times its the sound card, try removing it from device manager and letting windows redect it. Also have you gotten updated drivers for hardware you have that ME didn't have them for? Especially sound and video...

I tried all of that- they mention all of those things in the windows help file- unfortunatly- none of them helped the problem. I did go and get new drivers for everything- but I'm still taking like 5 minutes of a black screen to shut down. Any other ideas?

[CodeOmega]

Originally posted by Sowulo:
Not to mention antivirus software or NIC drivers...

I don't use antivirus software- but what are NIC drivers?

[CodeOmega]

Originally posted by Jeff the Brit:
Just a long shot ... try disabling the Windows shut-down sound. A corrupted sound file will hang in there trying to play and Windows won't close till it's finished playing the sound.

Thanx for the reply- but that was also covered in the windows help files- still a very long shutdown.

[CodeOmega]

Originally posted by Tsunami:
We had a similar grief we downgrades from 98 to ME and installed a speedstream dsl modem the computer would just not shut down it would go to the balck screen and stop our other me machines all shut down well so we swapped the modem to another machine and voila the first machine shutsdown great what it was is the modem is not compatable with ME so try shutting down your connection before shuting down your computer by the way the speedstream works great on a 98 machine your cable modem isnt USB by any chance??

The cable modem itself is not USB- but it is connected to an ethernet adapter- that then plugs into my USB port. Think that could be it? If so- what can I do about it?

[CodeOmega]

Booted and shutdown w/o the usb and it still takes an incredibly long time to shut down. Anybody else got an idea?

[stupot71]

like said previously i still think its someting not shutting down still ME has a problem with fragged drives (not just the one ME is on) so if you havent tried it defrag all drives even after a clean install ME messes up the drives( personal opinion) try using task manager and shut programs down before shutdown to isolate a prob even when you stop a program in msconfig some can still startup!!! (msn messenger) Go to www.mcafee.com and try there performane optomiser you get a free trial it checks your file system and hardware config it it cant fix it it will still tell you what problems you have if all fails reinstall windows

[stupot71]

just another quick thought how are your drives configured with regards to master/slave etc