July 5, 2009 05:18pm pdt

1. Callandor 112,685
2. nobus 107,114
3. garycase 88,603
4. MASQUE... 79,640
5. SysExpert 70,719
6. dbrunton 61,210
7. PCBONEZ 54,650
8. coral47 37,209
9. sparkmaker 35,859
10. moh10ly 27,665
11. jamietoner 24,042
12. rindi 23,490
13. PUNKY 23,158
14. f-king 21,850
15. jhyiesla 18,304
16. JohnnyCa... 17,738
17. leew 17,543
18. NaturaTek 15,964
19. David-Ho... 14,404
20. johnb6767 13,957
21. Computer... 13,135
22. andyalder 12,079
23. Kavostylin 12,075
24. kode99 10,800
25. coredatar... 10,174

1. Callandor 2,732,853
2. garycase 1,896,332
3. nobus 953,437
4. jhance 728,690
5. willcomp 630,672
6. SysExpert 531,787
7. sparkmaker 488,854
8. leew 435,622
9. tmj883 393,975
10. rindi 392,685
11. jamietoner 391,441
12. PUNKY 391,068
13. dogztar 384,300
14. MASQUE... 370,293
15. PCBONEZ 330,107
16. wlennon 300,673
17. mysticaldan 300,190
18. rid 278,331
19. f-king 269,651
20. RoadWarr... 262,326
21. dbrunton 252,603
22. sciwriter 244,093
23. magarity 202,509
24. scrathcyboy 196,133
25. coral47 196,018

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Pentium3 auto-shutdown FIX?

Asked by stvrich in Miscellaneous Hardware

Tags: m6vcg, shutdown, dsl

Hi

I have a Pentium III 800MHz M6vcg BIOstar MotherBoard with 128Megs of RAM and a 30gig Western Digital Hard drive. It's also got a 50x generic cd. The Hd.Drv is udma66 and the cd is udma33.

I just performed a clean reinstallation of WIN98 from CD and the autoshutdown feature worked just fine at every step of the re-installation of other software... up to a point. Then, all of a sudden when I'd ask it to shut down, it'd just go to the "It is now safe to turn your computer off" screen, INSTEAD of completely powering down. And, it's supposed to power down.

Here are the installation steps I followed, up to the point where the shutdown stopped happening.

Win 98: ok
Motherboard VIA Audio, MBrd Diagnostics, and DirectX7 (from the MBoard CD): ok
LinkSys 10/100 NIC: ok
Norton Antivirus Ver 5 for win98: ? (possible cause?)
Verizon DSL software (including Netscape Comm. ver4.73 : ? (possible cause)

After noticing that the auto-shutdown was not working properly, I logged into the DSL and the very first thing I did was update norton anti-virus. And I've rebooted the PC a couple times since then too. And, at this time, I'm going to continue installing the software the PC needs, and hopefully, I'll get someone responding to this question soon so I can fix this right away.

Somewhere, from Norton installation, to the DSL install, the auto-shutdown feature craps out.
Can anyone educate me on why that happens?

Like, is there some PARTICULAR feature of the Windows 98 OS that controls this shutdown that gets modified/corrupted and it fails to trigger the MotherBoard properly?
And if so, HOW do I fix it?
It'd just be nice to NOT have to reach around behind the machine to hit the switch on the power supply.

Thanx in advance for any rapid response I get. Right now it's 9am Eastern time (US) and I'll check back here approx every 15 min. ...As long as nothing gets in the way of my doing so...

Hopefully, there's just some SIMPLE file that needs re-copying or some little OS trickie-poo thing that can be done to correct this.

I've loaded and re-loaded this machine before, and never had this problem... that I can recall... or, if I did, I guess it "self corrected" if there IS such a thing.
I've virus scanned the ONLY floppy disks that have touched this machine, (the boot floppy and the linksys nic drivers) and there are no virusus that the scanner detected.

Any clues to fix this appreciated: I'm assiging a 'healthy' number of points just 'cause I hope to get this done soon...

;->

Sincerely
SteveView the Solution FREE for 7 Days

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Pentium3 auto-shutdown FIX?

Asked by stvrich in Miscellaneous Hardware

Tags: m6vcg, shutdown, dsl

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