When I do shutdown everything goes as should (hard disks stops etc) until my pc should power off. Then I get screen "Now it's safe to turn off your computer" if I press power button it does same as reset-button. I can only power off my pc when its starting again. I didn't see that "Now its safe..." when I was running Win98, it switched it self off before that screen. I hope someone has solution for me... PeeJii

Is Advanced powermanagement turned on? It should be in the control panel, it is the same with windows Pro 2000. My problem is, that when I try to restart windows ME, it turns everthing off except the power, so my system won't restart... Is this a normal problem? :(

I to have this problem. When I shut down my monitor goes blank but the system hangs, After a few seconds, 30 i think, I get a blue screen with an error message about system halt. Anyone have any guesses??? thx

I have this problem too. When I shut down my monitor goes blank but don't power off and the system hangs. I'm looking all the day long for driver in startup that don't allow to power off and i find it! NDIS.VXD !!! You can try to turn off this vxd using MSCONFIG.exe. Then I reinstall the newest drivers for my net card (3Com 905B) and turn on standard NDIS.VXD driver. My system works properly.

Once I had the same problem, while running Win98se Try to disable Video BIOS Shadow, At BIOS of course. It worked for me.

I had the same problem, but seem to have fixed it through the power schemes (under Display Properties/Screen Save tab/Energy saving features of monitor/settings). Chose Power scheme: always on; turn off monitor after 10 minutes; turn off hard drive after 1 hour. Under System standby: never. At System hibernate: never. Under Advanced: when I press power button: hibernate. Under hibernate: enable. You might have to do the advanced setting first to get the other sections to show hibernate functions. Good luck.

Hi peejii i have the same problem you have when i shut down my computer a message appears "it's now safe...." but the windows don't turn the power off and when i press the power button it restart and the hdd begin to work after the computer counts the rams if u fixed the problem plz tell me.