incorrect shutdown?

[daveleau]

I rarely restart my system b/c I use RamBooster and leave my system on constantly running RC5 for Sysopt. When I do restart or shutdown, it says I shutdown the system incorrectly. I have no registry errors as far as Mijenix Fix It Util 99 says and I have run scandisk without errors. I recently installed a 7200 RPM 20GB Maxtor and it is sandwiched between my floppy and another (5400 WD 13GB) HD. Could heat be the culprit or is there another possibility? I have a bay cooler for the HD on the way. Here are my system specs:
K6-2 400 @ 450
Soyo 5EMA+ V1.0
FSB 100MHz
256 MB PC100
Win 98SE (upgraded from Win98)
Thanks a bunch guys.

[Vampiel]

No, I dont think that heat would do that. Heat normally makes the system freeze up, and/or cause errors while the computer is on.My guess is that you need to run a prog. in windows/run that tells you the prog's windows had to skip to start your system. That does sound more like a reg. error. (but just like everything else it could be anything) I cannot remember the name of the prog. but if you allready know it then try that, ill post it l8tr.

[DHatAVI]

I believe there is an update for the SE that addresses shut down problems. I don't know if addresses yours or not though. I had a similar problem with my computer, It would appear to shut down ok, but it would run scandisk the next time I would boot. My fix was to reinstall Windows 98 (but not just for that reason, Windows had become unstable).

[daveleau]

Thanks for the replies guys. I unfortunatley found the problem though. Last night, right after I posted the message, I got a clicking sound and then my system froze. I restarted and got 'Primary Master & Primary Slave failure'. I assume my primary hd failed. I do have a wuestion though, would the primary failure of this type give me an error about the primary slave too if the second HD does not have an OS on it? thanks.

[Exlr8er2]

Any single adapter or harddisk etc.. that has failed on a buss can cause errors to be displayed on the other adapters or HD etc...