pc running win98se will not powerdown

That's normal, and a lot of people prefer it that way, but if you want your computer to power off by itself, you will need to modify your BIOS settings to turn on Power Management Features.

Also, in windows, control panel, power management, go to advanced and change the power button setting to shutdown

I think in addition to tbradley's suggestions, you would also have to check to see if you have the correct power supply type. Normally, there are two types used in PC's, AT and ATX. The ATX power supply units allow the operating system to shut down the computer, the AT units do not, they just get you to the screen where it says it's safe to turn off your PC.

If you still have the spec sheet that Compaq would have included with your computer (e.g., a mainboard manual), it should be able to tell you if you have the AT or ATX power supply. If you don't have the manual, but you do have those options in your BIOS to to change the power management settings, then that's a good sign that you have the ATX. If you have the ATX power supply,but not the options in the BIOS, then you'd probably have to look into upgrading your BIOS.

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This has been noted a number of times and also a featured article in Tech Republic concerning the 98SE shutdown problem
Go to www.microsoft.com-knowledgebase and look for the fix that may be helpful

There are a number of reasons why it wont shut down, for what its worth check in the bios to "enable" acpi power settings, also go to here http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q239/8/87.ASP

and d/l the win98 shutdown suppliment fix.

soulrider has it right they have posted many a fix for this one go to the site and get the fix.

This maybe becouse of some inportant files missing in ur system if you are using win98 u can try to download and install 'windows98se Shutdown patch' where u can get it from downloads.com/microsoft.com.
This will help to replase some missing files in the system.

There are indeed several possibility,s for not shutting down. To disable wake on modem and wake on lan in the bios ca also fix this problem.

You may also want to check in your device manager for duplicate Power Management Devices (Under system devices). If you have duplicates delete them both then restart. Your computer will redetect the correct device and should shut down properly.

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