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AMD'er
01-30-02, 10:53 PM
whats ladies and gents, I've been reading some of the post in a class discussion back at a school of higher education I just graduated from and a young lady has a problem with her pc.

She states that every time she goes to the start menu, shut down, that the computer does not shutdown. She says it flickers and it goes back to the desktop.

I asked if it did this once or what and she told me it happens everytime she goes to shut down and its been doing it for a while and she has just been living with it.

Its a Gateway about 2yrs old, running Win 98. Now I don't know how computer savy she is and she is 3hrs away from me.

Now what I would do is blow away the OS and reinstall everything but she may not know exactly how to do that or the fact that she may want to record the hardware types she has in the machine. I would hate for her to do that and can't find the Drivers ya know.

Any suggestions besides FDISKING you ladies and gents have or any solutions? Let me know thx.

William
01-30-02, 10:54 PM
Need to go the Microsoft website and get the Windows 98 shutdown patch. That will probably fix it. I have no idea where it is though.

Mr B
01-30-02, 10:56 PM
The correct fix is to gut that box, and replace the Gateway stuff with some good components....;)

Seriously...that sounds like what William, er...Joesph mentioned...I'd try that first...:)

Jeff Bolton
01-30-02, 11:00 PM
hey, don't send me to the gulag for saying this, but it'd be a lot more cool if you spelled it "Josef" like they did back in the day :)

AMD'r: my dads computer used to do that (win 98se) and he downloaded the patch and it seemed to fix the problem. good luck!

jeff

AMD'er
01-30-02, 11:07 PM
thanx I will releay the message to her and maybe she will be able to find it

jw50
02-01-02, 02:59 PM
If she bought a Gateway she should be calling their tech support, she paid for it she might as well use it.