When I shut my computer down, the monitor shuts down, and all the lights go off on the tower, however, the fans keep running. Further, I can only "turn the computer back on", by hitting the reset button. I run Verizon DSL, and Norton A/V, and my system is Windows ME.

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I have the exact same thing. It is the drive for your lan card that connects to your DSL service. Try disabling that card before you shut down your computer from the control panel. That is the only work around I have found.


On Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George Logan wrote:
>When I shut my computer down, the monitor shuts down, and all the lights go off on
>the tower, however, the fans keep running. Further, I can only "turn the computer
>back on", by hitting the reset button. I run Verizon DSL, and Norton A/V, and my
>system is Windows ME.
>

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My problem is very similar. My monitor will go black with a lone flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner and my CPU will stay on. The only thing I can do at this point is a cold shutdown causing it to go into scandisk at startup because it did not shut down properly. Plus, I am using cable modem, not DSL.


On Monday, February 17, 2003 at 9:15 am, Mark Hazan wrote:
>I have the exact same thing. It is the drive for your lan card that connects to
>your DSL service. Try disabling that card before you shut down your computer from
>the control panel. That is the only work around I have found.
>
>

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My problem is very similar. My monitor will stay on, along with the fan, but no cursor, just a redish black screen. I am also using cable modem but I did have DSL installed before that! The thing that really gets me is that it doesn't do it every time! Also when scan disk starts upon startup, It keeps restarting and most of the time it never finishes scanning. The only way I have found to get it to scan complete on startup is to un-plug my cable modem. There have been a few times that scan disk will find an error in boot, with the modem on, but, if you are not there to click "OK" right away it will tell you it has to scan again because windows has written to the drive. The second scan I have not had a problem with.


On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 12:47 pm, RegalRed1 wrote:
>My problem is very similar. My monitor will go black with a lone flashing cursor
>in the upper left hand corner and my CPU will stay on. The only thing I can do at
>this point is a cold shutdown causing it to go into scandisk at startup because it
>did not shut down properly. Plus, I am using cable modem, not DSL.
>
>

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Tim, I have found that if I don't end task on everything that is up and running ie. control/alt/delete (one time) and then shut down my screensaver, I will have the same problem with my Scan Disk. However, like you, my pc is also spuradic on when it chooses not to completely shut down. It's frustrating to say the least.


On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 7:38 am, Tim wrote:
>My problem is very similar. My monitor will stay on, along with the fan, but no cursor,
>just a redish black screen. I am also using cable modem but I did have DSL installed
>before that! The thing that really gets me is that it doesn't do it every time! Also
>when scan disk starts upon startup, It keeps restarting and most of the time it never
>finishes scanning. The only way I have found to get it to scan complete on startup
>is to un-plug my cable modem. There have been a few times that scan disk will find
>an error in boot, with the modem on, but, if you are not there to click "OK" right
>away it will tell you it has to scan again because windows has written to the drive.
>The second scan I have not had a problem with.
>
>

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Well I figured it out! My problem at least. I hope the list that follows will help someone else too. (Ref. Below) 1) I noticed a file trying to connect to my network but my firewall was not letting it. The file name was "cmd32.exe". It was really bogging my system down too. Then I noticed it was happening when I used Kazaa, peer 2 peer. I thought about it and remembered I downloaded a screen saver from Kazaa and clicked on the file and nothing happend, or so I thought! 2) I checked my system monitor and my Kernel Prosessor Usage was running @ 100% non-stop! 3) I went to Google and looked up "cmd32.exe" and I came to a site that said it was a Trojan. 4) I looked to see if I still had the trial Trojan Remover Program I downloaded and I did. I installed it and ran the update, then I ran the scan! It found all the files and tried to rename them. It was able to do some but some were in use. So it needed to do a restart. Before I clicked to restart I noticed it said trojans will sometimes prevent shutdowns! Ah ha!!!! BINGO!!!! After I had to shut the power switch off and rebooted, it renamed the rest of the files! 3) I unplugged my cable modem turned off all but my Anti-Virus and my Firewall and ran Scan Disk. Then I defragged my system and I have been error free since. I have shut down and restarted several times. No problems. Refferences: Firewall - Free - (http://www.sygate.com/) Anti-Virus - Free - (http://www.grisoft.com/) Trojan Remover - Trial - (http://www.simplysup.com/) I hope this helps someone else! Tim


On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 5:24 pm, RegalRed1 wrote:
>Tim, I have found that if I don't end task on everything that is up and running ie.
>control/alt/delete (one time) and then shut down my screensaver, I will have the
>same problem with my Scan Disk. However, like you, my pc is also spuradic on when
>it chooses not to completely shut down. It's frustrating to say the least.
>
>

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I have shutdown problems twice.Both times It was a hardware problem.The first time my cdrw went bad and I think it was writing to the drive.Fix was change cdrw.Second time was recently with a new dsl modem.(2wirebrand) went bad after only 6 hours of use 2wire determined it was bad and sent another in only 3 days.I uninstalled software and browser software too,still wouldnt shutdown .Fix restore to before installation.new modem reinstall software.Works great now.


On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 12:39 pm, Tim wrote:
>Well I figured it out! My problem at least. I hope the list that follows will help
>someone else too. (Ref. Below)
>
>1) I noticed a file trying to connect to my network but my firewall was not letting
>it. The file name was "cmd32.exe". It was really bogging my system down too. Then
>I noticed it was happening when I used Kazaa, peer 2 peer. I thought about it and
>remembered I downloaded a screen saver from Kazaa and clicked on the file and nothing
>happend, or so I thought!
>
>2) I checked my system monitor and my Kernel Prosessor Usage was running @ 100% non-stop!
>
>3) I went to Google and looked up "cmd32.exe" and I came to a site that said it was
>a Trojan.
>
>4) I looked to see if I still had the trial Trojan Remover Program I downloaded and
>I did. I installed it and ran the update, then I ran the scan! It found all the files
>and tried to rename them. It was able to do some but some were in use. So it needed
>to do a restart. Before I clicked to restart I noticed it said trojans will sometimes
>prevent shutdowns! Ah ha!!!! BINGO!!!!
>After I had to shut the power switch off and rebooted, it renamed the rest of the
>files!
>
>3) I unplugged my cable modem turned off all but my Anti-Virus and my Firewall and
>ran Scan Disk. Then I defragged my system and I have been error free since. I have
>shut down and restarted several times. No problems.
>
>Refferences:
>Firewall - Free - (http://www.sygate.com/)
>Anti-Virus - Free - (http://www.grisoft.com/)
>Trojan Remover - Trial - (http://www.simplysup.com/)
>
>I hope this helps someone else!
>Tim
>
>

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RegalRed 1, I am experiencing the same problem, what was your corrective action?


On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 12:47 pm, RegalRed1 wrote:
>My problem is very similar. My monitor will go black with a lone flashing cursor
>in the upper left hand corner and my CPU will stay on. The only thing I can do at
>this point is a cold shutdown causing it to go into scandisk at startup because it
>did not shut down properly. Plus, I am using cable modem, not DSL.
>
>

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Tim if you or anyone uses Kazaa, you also need to remove the SPYWARE ,ADWARE from 
the sytem this will creat Many many problems.
lavasoft.com has a free version of AD-AWARE to download .

Let it clean out everything it finds.
This will also disable kazaa since it has spyware made in it.

If you insist on running kazaa just reinstall it after ad-aware has finished.





On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 12:39 pm, Tim wrote:
>Well I figured it out! My problem at least. I hope the list that follows will help 
>someone else too. (Ref. Below)
>
>1) I noticed a file trying to connect to my network but my firewall was not letting 
>it. The file name was "cmd32.exe". It was really bogging my system down too. Then 
>I noticed it was happening when I used Kazaa, peer 2 peer. I thought about it and 
>remembered I downloaded a screen saver from Kazaa and clicked on the file and nothing 
>happend, or so I thought!
>
>2) I checked my system monitor and my Kernel Prosessor Usage was running @ 100% 
non-stop!
>
>3) I went to Google and looked up "cmd32.exe" and I came to a site that said it 
was 
>a Trojan. 
>
>4) I looked to see if I still had the trial Trojan Remover Program I downloaded 
and 
>I did. I installed it and ran the update, then I ran the scan! It found all the 
files 
>and tried to rename them. It was able to do some but some were in use. So it needed 
>to do a restart. Before I clicked to restart I noticed it said trojans will sometimes 
>prevent shutdowns!  Ah ha!!!! BINGO!!!!
>After I had to shut the power switch off and rebooted, it renamed the rest of the 
>files!
>
>3) I unplugged my cable modem turned off all but my Anti-Virus and my Firewall and 
>ran Scan Disk. Then I defragged my system and I have been error free since. I have 
>shut down and restarted several times. No problems.
>
>Refferences:
>Firewall - Free - (http://www.sygate.com/)
>Anti-Virus - Free - (http://www.grisoft.com/)
>Trojan Remover - Trial - (http://www.simplysup.com/)
> 
>I hope this helps someone else!
>Tim
>
>

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I am having a similar issue. My hard drive is completely off but the the case fans continue to run until I hold the power button for a couple seconds. This is also the case when I do a system restart, I just get a blank screen and I am forced to hit the restart button manually. I have scanned my hard drive with every imaginable program and nothing seems to be wrong.... can anyone help?


On Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 5:18 pm, George Logan wrote:
>When I shut my computer down, the monitor shuts down, and all the lights go off on
>the tower, however, the fans keep running. Further, I can only "turn the computer
>back on", by hitting the reset button. I run Verizon DSL, and Norton A/V, and my
>system is Windows ME.
>

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