System Won't Shutdown By Itself!!

[Gum]

Hi!

First, my setup:

Athlon 500 (week47 o/c to 700 @ 1.60v)
Asus K7M Rev 1.04 (AMI BIOS dated 01/13/00 aka KM124)
GW FKK08 Heatsink (modified with bigger fans)
128Mb Micron -8E rated PC100 SDRAM (in DIMM1 slot)
IBM 34GXP 13.6g
Quantum Fireball ST 3.2g
Toshiba 32x
HP 7570i 2x2x24x CDWriter
OEM 16Mb G400 (PwrDesk v5.41)
SBLive! Value (LiveWare v3.0)
Sumsung 700IFT
No-brand Full Tower with 300w 'Wintech' P.S
Win98SE + DX7.0

My problem is, although I have an ATX P.S, the system simply won't auto power-off by itself when I choose "shutdown" in Win98SE.
Instead the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen pops up!!

I went to this link for help but to no avail...
http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/troub-51.shtml

I've tried installing the latest Win98SE shutdown patch and also played around with all Power-Mgmt settings inside K7M BIOS.

Also tried changing settings inside Control-Panel->System->Device Manager->System Devices->PCI Bus. Also no luck here...It also seems like the K7M mobo does not support ACPI BIOS at all...

I can simply turn the computer off when the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen comes on, but I want to know what happened?

[Target]

No idea if this is related to your issue or not, but I was able to produce that error, and remove it, at will. All I did was enable/disable the assignment of an IRQ for VGA in my bios. Set one way, error manifested itself. Set it the other way, and the error disappeared.

[bmckay55]

Join the club with this problem. If you search the archives (select all forums) using "win98 shutdown" you will find many useful suggestions. Unfortunately, it appears there is no one cause why this occurs and no one cure. You are going to have to try and isolate the issue specific to your computer. In my case, with my office machine, it seems to have something to do with programs running in the back ground that I have to close down manually before I shut down.

It definitely has something to do with Win 98, however. I never had this occur with Win 95.

[pickel]

My daughter's computer has Win98 2nd edition and has never shutdown on auto. I was informed that the auto-shutdown was not available on 2nd edt. due to shutdown problems with Win 98 hanging up on auto-shuut down. I have Win 98 with auto on my computer and in over a year only had a problem when I installed Win 98 2nd(R.I.P.), but got that junk out of my computer and have had no problem since. Just push the power off button
. Welcome to the world of Windows 98 Second
Editon. Don't ya just love it!!!!!!!!

the pickel

[Spritel]

On the Win 98 SE CD (may be on CDs of other versions of Windows, I don't know) there is a tool you can install that will track the suspend procedure and identify exactly where it fails and what driver or program is not suspending properly. I don't remember the path. I believe it's in the tools folder. I'll look it up when I get home.

[Gum]

Thanx alot guys!!

I solved the problem by disabling Adv Power Mgmt(APM) inside BIOS & Win98SE. Now the system do power-off when I shutdown the system.

To Spritel:

If possible, kindly look up the utility tool you were talking about and post it here. It will defitely benefit many people!!
:-D

[Strip]

I believe that this would be the program you are talking about?

\tools\MTSUTIL\PMTSHOOT\pmtshoot.exe

PMTShoot is a tool to assist you in identifying the application or device driver that prevents your computer from entering its standby (or suspended) state.

PMTShoot monitors your computer system as it suspends, emphasizing those applications and drivers that can prevent your computer from suspending.

As your system suspends and then resumes, you will see text displayed by PMTShoot. This text is grouped according to the phases that comprise the suspend process. In many cases, you will find this grouping useful in diagnosing the cause of the suspend failure.

[grogiinsky]

I don't know if anybody already said this but there is a checkbox in System Configuration (in system tools menu) to disable fast Windows shutdown that might help.

[ENVY]

There is also a wizard in windows help that will help you perform some extensive troubleshootiong.Just type shutdown at the search prompt in help.