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Sluggish shutdowns in Win2K

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by formula

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I replaced my sound card with a SBLive MP3+, and accidently installed the wrong drivers. I then installed the newest drives available from Creative (after recovering from the huge crash). Now every time I shut down, the system tries to end task "devldr32.exe", and takes 3-8 minutes to shut off. I've tried removing and reinstalling the card and drivers, no luck. The card and everything else works perfect, only on shutdown or restart do I get this problem. I have 3 copies of this file runningin Task Manager under Processes. Help, this is annoying.

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by calves

How did you update the drivers? did you run an exe file from a CD, or did you use the Device Wizard to change drivers?

You can try this, search for devldr32.exe on your system and rename it to devldr32.exe and reboot.
you can always go back andundo it.
Devldr32 is no part of the OS, it was probably installed with your Sound card, so
if when your system reboots, your sound does not work, unistall it complete, using the device wizard and re-install it from scratch.

Good luck!

by formula

I must be dumb for not thinking about renaming the file. That's about the only thing I didn't try, Thanks.

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