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JVoorhees
posted on 06-04-2002 @ 8:55 PM      
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Registered: May. 01
Let me first say, that I have found very useful information in this section of the board. With that said, here is my issue:

I have a Dell 550mhz, 384 ram computer. I am running Windows 98SE. It was Dell manufactured. It is rather old, I know. When I click on shutdown, obviously to shutdown the computer, it restarts. Every time.

Here is what I tried, as per Microsoft's instructions:

I checked the IRQ Steering: No issue
The Bios is Fine
I disabled the NVRAM/ESCD: No change
I changed the Registry Key: No change
There is no conflict with the Antivirus program, and there is no virus present.
I also re-installed the Operating System.
I also removed the exiting wave file, and that did nothing to resolve the problem either.

Does anyone have any suggestions? In lieu of buying a new computer.

Thank You for at least listening.




JGNYC
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Hi, check this site out:

here ya go

please let me know if this works.





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Lord Slug
posted on 06-05-2002 @ 8:14 AM      
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JGNYC: Very nice.

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posted on 06-05-2002 @ 8:22 AM      
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WOW Forum Ambassador		posted on 06-05-2002 @ 9:06 AM      
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After you click on "shutdown" a window pops up with 3 or 4 shutdown options. Make sure the black dot is in the white circle next to "Shut Down the computer" and NOT in the white circle next to "Resart the computer".



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This message was edited by barch97 on 6-5-02 @ 5:39 PM
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I know this works in 98 -

To make a -

Restart shortcut on your desktop -

Right click on desktop > New > Shortcut > in the command line copy/paste > C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 2 > Next > Finish > Make sure it is named or you rename it "Restart."

Shutdown shortcut on your desktop -

Right click on desktop > New > Shortcut > in the command line copy/paste > C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 1 > Next > Finish > Make sure it is named or you rename it "Shutdown."





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Also, how are you connected to the internet? Dial-up modem? If so, is it external? I've seen and heard of situations where shutting off the modem after you shutdown the PC causes said PC to reboot (happens all the time here on one of the Compaq's at my job, noone knows why - happened to a friend of mine as well, he eventually got a new machine so he didn't care).


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quote:
happens all the time here on one of the Compaq's at my job, noone knows why - happened to a friend of mine as well, he eventually got a new machine so he didn't care


Did you disable the Wake On LAN?

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JVoorhees
posted on 06-06-2002 @ 6:24 AM      
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Registered: May. 01
Thank You JGNYC, the link was very helpful, but unfortunately nothing seems to work...Thank you to everyone else for their information as well.
Slash, I will be trying your suggestion soon. Goatweed, the modem is internal. I tried disabling it in the device manager, and it still re-started, Thank You for the advice.

If I time it right, I can manually shut it off from the tower, when it is in the process of restarting, without getting a scan disk. That seems to be the best option right now.

Thanks again, I am probably purchasing a new computer soon anyway.




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Before you go shelling out the buck for a new 'puter (unless you were just looking for a reason to do just that) try backing everything up and doing a clean wipe of your harddrive and reinstalling windows.

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JVoorhees
posted on 06-06-2002 @ 9:03 PM      
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Registered: May. 01
In lieu of sounding retarted, what is the proper way to clean your hard drive and then re-format it, after backing up the data. I will back-up using CD-R's.




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posted on 06-06-2002 @ 9:12 PM      
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Just make sure you have one of those win98 startup disks with cdrom support. Backup all your important info. Use the startup disk, choose to boot with cdrom support. When you get to the A:\ prompt use the command: format c:

When it's done, run setup from the win98 cdrom.

All done.




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WOW Forum Ambassador		posted on 06-06-2002 @ 9:14 PM      
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If you're reformatting it, you don't need to clean it.





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