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Win98SE Restarts instead of shutting down
The title says it all. W98 SE restarts the computer when I select "Shutdown" from the shutdown menu. (the computer restarts, not just windows)
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this may help
troubleshoot
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q238/0/96.asp
also see here
this one is especially good >http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnse.htm
shutdown supplement
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/Win98SE/Default.asp
troubleshoot
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q238/0/96.asp
also see here
this one is especially good >http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnse.htm
shutdown supplement
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/Win98SE/Default.asp
this happened to me. once i was fooling around in the bios setup of my computer and i set the wake on LAN to Enabled. this means that every time that there is a packet hitting your lan card, your ATX case turns your computer on.
i dont know if it helps but...
i dont know if it helps but...
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Please delete as I accidentally posted twice and have accpeted an answer on the other post. Thanks
This has value, so rather than deleting it, I'll refund your points and move it to the PAQ next week, but would like to wait until then so that the participating experts can be advised of this action.
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Also downloads the latest drivers.
Another is to disable power management in the BIOS & Windows.
I had the same problem with Gateway Profile3 and I had to update the BIOS to resolve the problem.
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