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win98se shutdown hangs at blank screen/blinking cursor
Situation is this -
Old computer was running Windows 98 (first edition) with no problems. Recently replaced OS with Windows 98 Second Edition. Now computer cannot be shutdown. After clicking to shutdown, I get none of the normal screens like "windows is shutting down" etc. - All I get is a blank screen with the blinking cursor in top left corner. The computer has hung at this point and needs to be switched off at the power button. The computer will still restart OK. The problem appears to be the video driver is incompatible with Windows 98 Second Edition. I worked this out because if I remove the video driver and replace it with standard VGA driver, the computer will then shut down normally. Installing the most current Windows 98 driver (Support from manufacturer for this video card ended March 2005) does not fix the problem. I found some patch on Microsoft's website for shutdown problems in Windows 98 Second Edition http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/d...SE/Default.asp This does nothing to change the problem. The video card is an Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64. Motherboard is a Lucky Star 6ABX2V - This Taiwan manufacturer abandoned the motherboard making business some years ago and no longer offers any support at all for this product, and now deals only with web hosting as far as I can tell (the site is non-english), so no help with new motherboard drivers. The Award BIOS is updated to the current version. CPU is 400MHz Pentium II slot 1. There is 320Mb RAM. Anyone know how or if this can be fixed? |
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win98se shutdown hangs at blank screen/blinking cursor
Start here for shutdown troubleshooting:
http://www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm Computer Stops Responding When You Try to Shut It Down http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q196008 Problems Shutting Down Windows 98 Second Edition http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q238096 How to Perform Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98 http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q192926 Also read "Clean Boot -- What it is and why you need it" by MS MVP Gary Terhune http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ fred wrote: Situation is this - Old computer was running Windows 98 (first edition) with no problems. Recently replaced OS with Windows 98 Second Edition. Now computer cannot be shutdown. After clicking to shutdown, I get none of the normal screens like "windows is shutting down" etc. - All I get is a blank screen with the blinking cursor in top left corner. The computer has hung at this point and needs to be switched off at the power button. The computer will still restart OK. The problem appears to be the video driver is incompatible with Windows 98 Second Edition. I worked this out because if I remove the video driver and replace it with standard VGA driver, the computer will then shut down normally. Installing the most current Windows 98 driver (Support from manufacturer for this video card ended March 2005) does not fix the problem. I found some patch on Microsoft's website for shutdown problems in Windows 98 Second Edition http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/d...SE/Default.asp This does nothing to change the problem. The video card is an Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64. Motherboard is a Lucky Star 6ABX2V - This Taiwan manufacturer abandoned the motherboard making business some years ago and no longer offers any support at all for this product, and now deals only with web hosting as far as I can tell (the site is non-english), so no help with new motherboard drivers. The Award BIOS is updated to the current version. CPU is 400MHz Pentium II slot 1. There is 320Mb RAM. Anyone know how or if this can be fixed? |
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