HI:I upgraded Today my win 98 To win 98SE everything work Fine Except When I shutdown The Computer Restart Instead Of Shutoff I have Tried Everything I can Think Off with no joy on the other hand The win98SE (MS Patch) it doesn,t work BTW:Win 98SE Shutdown Fine via the Safe mode any ideas Before I Revert Back to win 98 1ST regards,Poweraid

Install the Shutdown Supplement patch http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WUCritical/q273017/Default.asp

The "patch" works like 1 out of 8 times for me. Try this: Click Start | Run | MSCONFIG [Click OK] Click the Advanced button (near bottom right) Put a check for Disable Fast Shutdown Click OK Reboot Now try a shutdown. If this works or not, repost for more suggestions.

HI:As I said Before I have tried everything with no joy Disable Fast shutdown , Exit Win Sound, APM, Disable Sound in hardware Profile, Assign IRQ To AGP in Bios, I also used a Third Party Software To Force Win 98SE to Shutoff without any Result Maybe there is a Bug with win 98SE thanks..

poweraid, I have one computer that does the same thing. I installed all the patches, changed video cards, updated the BIOS, did everything. I think there are some motherboards that have a built-in conflict with Win 98SE shutdown. On this same computer, Win 95 shutdown fine. I just select RESTART whenever I shutdown that computer and as it is rebooting I turn it off. DR

Hi This Url outlines the problem http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q238/0/96.asp I gathered that after applying the patch the fast shutdown option was no longer available. Yours by what you've written, is still there to check as an option.

I had the same problem. Tried everything too. Finally formatted, installed the SE upgrade and it's been working fine.