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by albertothorus

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I have W98 and I whould like that my PC turns off automatically when I exit windows.

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by rcsd

Right...

Well first you should make sure that you have Power Management enabled in the BIOS.

If that does not work, you should visit the Microsoft site and D/L theWindows 98 patch that corrects (sometimes) the bug in WIN 98 and WIN 98SE that causes a "hang" at the "Please wait while Windows..." screen.

Failing that, I would also make sure that your device drivers, particularly video and sound card drivers.

There is a very real chance that your computer is one of those that simply will not shut down. (One of mine won't) Hope this helps..

by itjforbes

Just a thought if it is an older computer it might not have the hardware that is required to turn it self off.

by clover252525

I'm afraid this is entirely a BIOS question. Most recent BIOSes support this function with an option in the CMOS setup such as "Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN" under Power Management. If you can't find such a setting, your BIOS doesn't support the feature andyou may have to upgrade your BIOS.

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by otl

I have encountered this error and upon consulting the oem discovered this was a software problem and the solution is to reload the os.

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