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by gmmaehder

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I recently reinstalled the operating system on a
pc with an AMD chip. The install included Win98 SE, then Windows XP. There is now a shutdown problem where the system reaches "It is now safe to shutdown your system" and you have to do so manually. It did come to a full shutdown prior to the reinstalls, I know there is shutdown issue with WIN 98 and AMD chips. Does this mean I need the Win 98 patch to fix this shutdown problem or is there a better solution.
Thank You Gaye

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by thechas

There are numerous shut down issues, not just with AMD CPUs.

Anyhow, what you need to do is enable APM for XP.

Go to device manager,
on the view button, select show hidden (or all) devices,
right click on APM, and select enable.

If the APM option is not there, you may need to enable either APM or ACPI in BIOS settings.

For Windows 98, you still need the large hard drive cache supplement, and may want to install the shutdown supplement.

If you are still having problems, there isa good article on XP shutdown issues posted at www.aumha.org

Chas

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