Shutdown

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Gertrude

Is there a known shutdown problem when running Win 2000 on a pc with a PIII
CPU and memory of 128MB? My pc freezes on shutdown.
 
Not really, it could be something else that you're running.

Have you downloaded and installed all Windows updates and drivers? What
software are you running?
 
Gertrude said:
Is there a known shutdown problem when running Win 2000 on a pc with a PIII
CPU and memory of 128MB? My pc freezes on shutdown.
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Have you checked for BIOS updates...?

- Tomppa -
 
There is not. That is a very common hardware configuration.

Please define "freezes". BSOD? Seems to stop and never quite finish,
even after half an hour? At exactly what point does this happen?

Are there no reports in Event Viewer? Does Device Manager show anything
odd? Does the system ever, ever hiccup at other times?

Does this happen 100% of the time?

When you reboot after this, does the system run autocheck?

The problem could be any of a large menu of things, including
- file corruption. Run "chkdsk /f /r" on the system partition. It will
report it can't do that and ask you if you want to run it at the next
boot; answer Yes.
- a process that cannot be shutdown
- an incorrect BIOS setting
- a backlevel BIOS, as others have suggested
- a failing hard drive (the OS is trying to save settings, and hardware
retry operations are occurring under the covers). This condition often
leaves no footprints in system logs and can last over an hour. The OS
basically just waits and waits; the disk access it commended is very
high priority and must be completed before the OS can continue.
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