Shut Down Lockup W98

W98 and W98Se both experience lockups at the shutdown splash screen. Volumes of material can be found as well as "patch" repair files at Microsoft's Technet or Windows update site. The one software issue I've encountered is with NAI (McAfee Virus Scan 4.X or higher). The software should not scan floppies on shutdown or the hang you've been experiencing may occur.

Where I work we sell Soyo motherboards with Win98SE. We've seen that same problem hundreds of times. What we finally came up with was something strange but it works: we turned of the ACPI support in the BIOS under Power Management. Not that this works for all boards, but most of the new ones we sell respond to this by shutting down every time. We only have to do this with Win98(SE). Also if you feel it may be software related you can select specific items to load on startup by running 'msconfig' from Run. It's been useful in finding those rogue programs that like to cause havoc on system resources.

Hope it helps.