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by gm 1 view

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I have an issue with my Win2000pro system when it shuts down. It may not be an issue but it is perpelexing. One day when I booted up my pc a screen came up that read my hard drive needed to be checked for errors.

I ran the check and when it wasdone it declared it had fixed/repaired some files. Now when I shutdown it goe through the correct process until the end. I can hear the power supply gear down but the window that tells me its okay to shut off the power never appears. I just get ablack screen. I shut down. When I bring the system back up all indications are it shut down properly the first time. No improper shutdown messages.

Any suggestions?? I have both hotfixes installed on my machine.

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by ananth1982

when system boots press f8 ,go 2 safe mode and run scandisk (thorough).Before that edit an entry in scandisk.ini (ie NUMPASSES=3),which means it checks each cluster 3 times and the errors might get checked,
if that doesnt work then it would be most probably network problem,just remove the drivers and reinstall them....it might work out

...ananth

by chrisms

I have read of similar experiences where the answer was to prolong the shut down time out period, as the power supply was turning off before the hard drive because of the amount of different programs that have to shut down.
I will try to fnd the article an give more info.

by gm

I thank everyone for the help on the issue. we however found out what it was. It was an Adaptec Direct CD Creator software installed on the machine.

We started getting messages the "device is not connected to the system".When we looked at the ad remove programs we found an Adaptec CD Creator Wizard software and the direct cd version both installed on thge system.

We removed the one least used, and now the machine powers down properly. Now we get that our Iomega ZipCD is not installedbut our cd burner still works well and with no issues.

thanks again.

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