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Win98Se Shutdown Problem
Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the
"It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of
powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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Hi Gary,
The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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You're sure the LED is for the HD?
-- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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The LED stays lit even after the system shuts itself down?
-- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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I realize, now, that perhaps the system *isn't* shutting itself down? That it
shows a blank screen, the HD LED is lit, *AND* the system remains powered up? Do I have it right this time, s? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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Operating on the assumption that I finally *do* have the problem understood. The
first thing I would do is trouble-shoot using MSCONFIG. See the first article below for those instructions. They are part of a much larger set of procedures, but you might as well do them, anyway. Once a Clean Boot is established, after restarting, then shut down and see what happens. The Security! article contains what would be my next set of suggestions. "Clean Boot--What it is and why you need it." http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm "Security!" http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... I realize, now, that perhaps the system *isn't* shutting itself down? That it shows a blank screen, the HD LED is lit, *AND* the system remains powered up? Do I have it right this time, s? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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Hi Gary....
I don't exactly know whether the system isn't shutting down because i don't get any improper shutdown error message on next startup. When I do StartShutdownShutdown the "Windows is shutting down" screen comes and then the screen goes blank with the LED lit. and the LED is the hard drive LED indicator. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: I realize, now, that perhaps the system *isn't* shutting itself down? That it shows a blank screen, the HD LED is lit, *AND* the system remains powered up? Do I have it right this time, s? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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But you eventually press the On/Off button and it finishes shutting down, right?
My last message contains my suggestions for t-shooting this, at least to start with. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary.... I don't exactly know whether the system isn't shutting down because i don't get any improper shutdown error message on next startup. When I do StartShutdownShutdown the "Windows is shutting down" screen comes and then the screen goes blank with the LED lit. and the LED is the hard drive LED indicator. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: I realize, now, that perhaps the system *isn't* shutting itself down? That it shows a blank screen, the HD LED is lit, *AND* the system remains powered up? Do I have it right this time, s? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, The problem is that the LED light does not go out even if I don't turn off the power for a lot of time. I fear that my hard drive will get damaged if I turn off the power when the hard drive is being written to. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: It's normal for that message to not appear when the machine is capable of powering itself down. Modern machines with ATX power supply and ACPI enabled will shut down completely, all by themselves. It is normal for the HD light to be on until the system actually shuts down. Lots of stuff is getting written to the drive during shutdown. I don't understand what your problem is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Pravin Prabhu" wrote in message ... Whenever I Shut down Win98 SE the shutdown process occurs normally, but the "It is safe to Turn off your computer" message does not appear and the LED indicating that the hard drive is being accessed, is on.It shows me no warnings of an improper shutdown when I startup. What could be the problem. |
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... But you eventually press the On/Off button and it finishes shutting down, right? My last message contains my suggestions for t-shooting this, at least to start with. If I may offer a quick observation, it has been my experience that a constant HD LED display is usually indicative of an improper data cable issue or an improper jumper setting on either the master HD or the slave drive (HD or Optical Drive). |
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