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| Thread ID: 10802 | 2001-08-13 11:38:00 | Shutdown won't stay shutdown | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 16929 | 2001-08-13 11:38:00 | Have recently installed a 20g HDD into a HP Pavillion to replace the 4g HDD that kept crashing. The older system ran on win 95. Have replaced this with Win 98SE. Everything is A-OK but now when I shut down, it shuts down for a few seconds then reboots again. I have to actually physically turn it off at the switch! I've checked the BIOS to see if there were any suspect settings but haven't been able to pinpoint any. So what do you reckon is the problem apart from a gremlin? | Guest (0) | ||
| 16930 | 2001-08-13 23:54:00 | Well first the obvious step - make sure you aren't selecting 'Shutdown, restart' (I don't think you're stupid, I often kick myself for not checking the obvious first). Next - in Windows 2000 there is a registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon called PowerdownAfterShutdown. You can set this to 1 if you want the computer to power down, or 0 if you want it to stay on. I don't know if this is the same for Windows98, but do a search in the registry for 'shutdown' and you should find it. Apart from that I would have suggested checking BIOS settings which you've already done! | Guest (0) | ||
| 16931 | 2001-08-14 01:56:00 | Drove me mad too when first ran 98se. Go to start/windows update. There is a fix you can download + some security patches as well. |
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| 16932 | 2001-08-14 05:48:00 | Hi Viva, Go to the following adress for a fix for your problem. www.microsoft.com |
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| 16933 | 2001-08-14 06:35:00 | Thanks for the suggestion Pete. Much appreciated. Did try the obvious, thought I had done just that during the process, but on checking discovered I was not clicking restart. | Guest (0) | ||
| 16934 | 2001-08-14 08:06:00 | Thankx Brent & Steve. That solved the problem. Awesome! | Guest (0) | ||
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