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re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE.
Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 12:54 am
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Posted by bob wells (1136 messages posted)


Klerg,

I"m not sure why you are replying to me on someone else's thread. I don't believe 
I replied to your message so it's possible my reply here had nothing to do with your 
problem.

bw






On Friday, April 14, 2006 at 2:43 pm, Klerg wrote:
>
>Most of that website was a repeat of MS. However, i do have a Realtek RTL8029(AS),
>i installed the old Win98 drivers, but when i shut down it STILL went to the "It's
>now safe.." screen. I replaced the Realtek with a 3Com, once again it went back to
>the "it's now safe..." screen on shut down. As a last resort, I removed ANY trace
>of network cards from my PC. Guess what? NO luck, the dreaded "It's now safe..."
>message never goes away.
>
>I tried disabling APM, and enabling ACPI. This did NOTHING! I think i've tried everything
>suggested on that page. I've even reset the CMOS settings, of course, this did NADA.
>What puzzles me is that the MS page nor the WST page ever mention the "It's now safe.."
>message at all. I wonder if i'm just wasting my time trying all this stuff when all
>of it is meant to fix PC's that 'hang' on shut down. I'm really stumped right now.
>Some help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>



Written in response to:
re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (Klerg: Friday, April 14, 2006 at 2:43 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (seskanda: Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 1:31 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (seskanda: Thu, Apr 13, 2006, 3:51 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (bob wells: Thu, Apr 13, 2006, 6:08 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (Klerg: Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 2:43 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (bob wells: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 12:54 am)
*re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (seskanda: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 1:31 am)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (bob wells: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 2:51 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (seskanda: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 6:31 pm)
*re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (JmC: Sun, Apr 16, 2006, 10:51 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (bob wells: Tue, Apr 18, 2006, 11:44 pm)
*re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (seskanda: Tue, May 2, 2006, 11:49 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (Brian: Thu, Apr 27, 2006, 6:12 pm)
-re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (seskanda: Tue, May 2, 2006, 11:56 pm)
*re: 'It's now safe to shut down your computer' in 98SE. (bob wells: Wed, May 3, 2006, 8:16 pm)
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