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PC rebooting after Win95 Shutdown

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by leisacuster

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I am having a problem with a generic PC running Win95. The PC is fine until Shutdown, then after displaying the system is shutting down screen, instead of the Safe to turn off PC screen, the PC reboots, reloading Win95. I found info on random reboots but this seems to only happen on Shutdown. Thanks.

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by dmiles

A number of things could be happening to create this
Check to make sure that you have the correct memory and it is seated correctly
Check the antivirus to see if it is configured properly and not running in the background,this applies to screen savers also.
Try trouble shooting through MSCONFIG to solve this problem
Has the CPU been operating properly and not overheated or spiked, with a surge or outtage
Run your antivirus to check the system

by shanghai sam

Win95 - no msconfig but I did check memory and all connections. I had just reloaded the PC so I didn't have a antivirus software installed yet. I finally flashed bios and tightened loose battery and now it seems to be shutting down fine. Thanks for your input.

by k_iyer

pl check whether "fast shutdown " is enabled.
if so you will have to disable thro regedit or msconfig
secondly,may be your shutdown logo file is corrupted replace it from .cab files.

by big ray

Microsoft has reports in their knowledge base on this problem. It can be caused by any combination of the following:

1) Novell Netware Client 4.10
2) Any form of Virus scanner
3) Having mapped network drives

go to microsofts website and download their 2 shutdown patches. The first one is the Windows shutdown supplement and the second is the mapped drive shutdown patch.

by shanghai sam

Thanks for info, I checked it out but the problems above seemed to deal with 98 not 95. I fixed the problem by flashing the bios. I think it might have worked by just clearing the bios also. I also noticed the battery wasn't as tight as it could have been so I fixed that and now everything seems to be working fine. Thanks again.

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