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by pfu920

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sometimes when i shut down my computer, the blue screen of death pops up, stating "windows protection error, system halted, you must restart your computer". What is the phenomenon causing this? I have Windows Millenium Edition PIII. Also, how do I deactivate the automatic shutdown? I would like the option of having to press the power off button myself when I shutdown. Thanks for replies...

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by terrance.grossmith

have you recently added any new hardware/software to your system? if so, try removing it and see if you still receive the error. you may also need to update a driver for anything you've added. for the power i think you need to go into your bios and check your power mgmt. settings. you should disable it if you want to control it yourself. there may also be some settings in the windows display settings, under the screen saver tab. hope this helps.

by pfu920

Sorry my man, I don't have anything new installed in it. The only thing I did do was update my display driver. I tried uninstalling that but i still get that screen. I Went into set up and had to change the power off button setting, that didn't help either. Sorry!

by terrance.grossmith

maybe try booting into safe mode, and then removing your video card in device manager. it should be under the "display adapters" tab. then reboot back into normal mode and windows should detect your video card again, allowing you to reinstall the drivers. maybe this will help. i hope it does.

by pfu920

I jsut tried doing as you said. now I am missinga nvagp.inf file. The windows millenium disk seems to not have it. Hmm... I will try and restore it and see what happens.

by ielliott

There is a great utility called Norton systemworks that has norton utilities which runs off the CD. This program has cleaned up numerous machines for me. Has fixed many many BSOD problems. As for the power off function, usually that is a bios setting on the motherboard itself.

by pfu920

As much as I do appreciate your response, I would rather not use a thrid party software with this version of windows *millenium edition). The microsoft website has said that there's a problem between ME and Norton Utilities. I'd much rather solve this problem internally, by myself or bring it to some computer retail store to to help me with this problem. Thanks anyway!!!

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