Your network throughput and overall network performance may gradually decrease, sometimes to the point that the computer hangs or becomes completely unresponsive to network requests. Thanks for your help - I did not have this situation, but have recorded the fix.
Try these 2 shortcuts. Create shortcut with command line: start rundll user. Create shortcut with command line: rundll Use one of these shortcuts to shutdown your computer Good luck Alex. Remove any line from config. Enabling fast shutdown because you have applied the shutdwon pacth.
If those do not work, downlad the latest BIOS for your computer board. VXD with the Windows 98 version to address shutdown issues. Microsoft strongly recommends that users do not do this. This is an untested scenario that could result in blue screens, ACPI errors and hardware failures. VXD is installed on the system and replace any older versions with the Windows 98 Second Edition version.
Best rugged laptops in Work anywhere, in any conditions 17 minutes ago by Sean Portnoy in Laptops. Realtek Network Cards Problems Controversial. He has proposed a controversial solution which has worked on the many machines where he has applied it. His solution is to replace the drivers for the network card with the original pre-SE Windows 98 version 4.
The reason I have characterized this as controversial is that it is capable of producing unpredictable side-effects, or even known adverse side-effects. Harper reports, there are known bugs corruption of packets sent over the network with the 4. On the other hand, the drivers available from Realtek return the shutdown problem to computers where the above changes removed that problem.
A further concern is that part of what this recommended fix does is revert a portion of the Win98 SE power management code to the Win98 original version, which is consistent with some other avenues of repair most, but not all, of the SE shutdown problems reduce to power management issues , but could also bring unsuspected problems.
Mixing bits and pieces of different OS versions is generally not recommended. The underlying problem is that Realtek has not yet produced drivers to work for Win98 SE. The individual user must, therefore, decide which set to use, knowing that there are potential problems with the above apparent fix; or whether to switch away from the Realtek card, or away from Win98 SE. Sometimes this solution was worked on its own; in other cases it has worked only in combination with other actions; and in still others it has not worked at all.
Because power management issues are at the root of such a high percentage of these shutdown problems, it makes sense to troubleshoot your power management functionality per se. The latest version which is much better than the one shipped with Windows can be downloaded here.
In this scenario, attempting this produces an error message:. Your computer cannot be suspended at this time. A program or driver you have running may be preventing this action. Close all programs, and then try again. Thereafter, Windows hangs when you attempt shutdown. This is a bug in Win98 SE. What happens is that the suspend operation begins and locks some ACPI resources.
When it fails to suspend, these are not unlocked, and this prevents Windows from shutting down correctly. Microsoft has a supported fix for this bug. For information on obtaining this patch from them, see MSKB This is a bug for which Microsoft has a fix.
SYS is seeks battery status every 20 seconds. Any one else have any ideas? Anyone else had these problems and found a solution????? Share Flag. All Comments. Collapse -. Windows 98 SE Shutdown. Poster rated this answer 0 Votes. Back to Windows Forum. Start or search. Start New Discussion. Create a new discussion If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.
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