Weird Shutdown problem...

[Kuasimodem]

This strange, and it's bugging the ka ka out of me!!! (it just started a week ago, or so)

Whenever I shut down my system, everything cycles perfectly, then click, the drives, monitor and fans shut down. The only problem is that the power and HDD lights stay on, and my NIC card stays active (connection still seen my router). Could it be a power supply problem? I have selectively removed each peripheral from the system separately, problem still there.

System...
Abit KT7-RAID
900 T-bird(Thermaltake Super Orb)
512Mb Micron PC133 SDRAM
2 Western Digital 30Gb drives (ATA100)
ATI Radeon LE (clocked and tweaked, Blue Orb, RAMSinks)
Linksys LNE10/100 NIC
Soundblaster 16 PCI
Pinnacle Studio PCTV Pro
Acer CDRW4432A burner
Hitachi 8x DVDROM
Antec KS282+ case with PP303 300W PS
2 8cm fans in rear of case
1 slot fan below vid card

If it is the PS, I'm going to a 400W, got a lotta stuff in this thing!

[Roy]

If it's W98SE, Run msconfig >General >Advanced and check Disable Fast Shutdown. Might help.

[Kuasimodem]

I'm running Win 98se, version 4.10.2222A. I ran msconfig and under advanced there is no setting for "Disable fast shutdown".

I wish I had a PS big enough to handle the T-bird, then I could do a swap and find out.

In the bios I do have the shutdown set for the 4 second delay because it would just reboot when I had it set to instant off when I first built the system.

Still sane...but not for long....

Any help would be greatly appreciated, TIA...

[Kuasimodem]

^^^bump^^^

[Imperion1]

You really don't need a bigger power supply. But it does sound like a power supply problem, since the hdd (or all the ide slots) and apparently the pci slots are still getting power.
The other alternative is that the mobo has a short somewhere or has gone bad.

[CPUfrier]

I think u might need the windows update that has to the shutdown so that you're hard drives need time for the cache and stuff, something like that. just try the windows update

[DanU]

Kuasimodem... are you SURE "Disable fast shutdown" isn't there??? Win98SE does have it. Here's what looks like:
http://members.nbci.com/solder/gfx/advanced.png

I have a KT-7 and Duron and I also had shutdown problems with win98se. Disabling fast shutdown solved it.

[Kuasimodem]

I have every selection on that list except "disable fast shutdown."

I'm beginning to think it may be a motherboard problem, as I now have a memory loss problem... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum5/HTML/006212.html

My opinion of Abit is starting to falter, this board is only 4 months old!

[Deanna_L]

It is very possible that the "Disable Fast Shutdown" check box will not be in msconfig. This occurs if you have already installed the Windows 98 SE Shutdown Supplement from Windows Update.

Could this problem be related to "suspend" functions that can be set differently...say if you hit the keyboard keys does it come back? Is it in hibernate? There are some on-off switches that can be set differently to allow it to go into hibernate, rather than off, until it is "woken up" by a keyboard command? Do you have a "Wake on Lan" Cable?

Could you have picked up a Trojan? This can cause possible start up/shut down problems and also give low resources and memory. Have you checked in you System Monitor to monitor your network and memory activity?

[Kuasimodem]

THANK YOU DEANNA L!!!

I no longer have a WOL cable installed in my system, and the shutdown problem is GONE. Now to do something about my memory loss...