re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 9:21 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Spinka (1 messages posted) I had the same problem and I fixed it with flashing my BIOS. That's all. :) try it, hope it helps to you also... On Monday, July 8, 2002 at 4:51 pm, Tristan wrote: >I have a question about When >I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait" >screen: > >I have windows 2000 installed, and whenever I try to shut down my computer, everything >seems to shut down fine at first, and it even makes a slight "poofing" sound at the >end (that always comes when turning my pc off), but my computer is actually still >running. I have a black screen, but the lights on my pc are still on and I can hear >the typical "pc is running" sound. (The ventilators I guess). Even hitting the on/off >switch manually doesn't work to turn it off. >The only way I can correctly shut down my pc with this problem, is by always hitting >"restart" instead of "shut down" and then turning my pc off manually during early >bootup. This is really annoying. >Windows ME always shut down by itself correctly. > > > > Written in response to: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Tristan: Monday, July 8, 2002 at 4:51 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Tristan: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 4:51 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Glen Kussow: Tue, Jul 9, 2002, 5:56 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (henjo: Tue, Oct 11, 2005, 3:58 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Vito: Wed, Jul 10, 2002, 11:15 am) Thanks, but no fix (Tristan: Wed, Jul 10, 2002, 12:37 pm) re: Thanks, but no fix (Jonathan: Sun, Aug 4, 2002, 9:41 am) Fixed it! (Jonathan: Sun, Aug 4, 2002, 3:46 pm) re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Adam Spinka: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 9:21 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum