Old mobo locks up intermittently and/or reboots on shutdown

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Please help!

I posted this last week to a coupla dozen newsgroups, but never saw
my original
message pop up, so I'm trying again.


I have an ASUS P5A-B mobo with the latest BIOS installed (1105).
It has an AMD-K6-2/500AFX processor. All mobo jumpers are correct for
this CPU.
It's maxed on memory (768Mb).
I put in an old WD 20Gb HD & installed Win98SE.

It intermittently locks up (must power cycle to clear).
When I shutdown, it either:
1) hangs at "Windows 98 is shutting down" screen; or
2) reboots.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Bill Barker

 

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In article <41D9C25A.49F5BD4@fnal.gov>, barker@fnal.gov says...
> Please help!
>
> I posted this last week to a coupla dozen newsgroups, but never saw
> my original
> message pop up, so I'm trying again.
>
>
> I have an ASUS P5A-B mobo with the latest BIOS installed (1105).
> It has an AMD-K6-2/500AFX processor. All mobo jumpers are correct for
> this CPU.
> It's maxed on memory (768Mb).
> I put in an old WD 20Gb HD & installed Win98SE.
>
> It intermittently locks up (must power cycle to clear).
> When I shutdown, it either:
> 1) hangs at "Windows 98 is shutting down" screen; or
> 2) reboots.
>
> Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Barker
>

Win 98 does not like more than 512Meg of memory unless you do special
incantations to the Goats of Redmond. Try taking out ram 'till you have
equals to /or less than 512Meg. Google is your friend.

Bill

 

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Bill Barker wrote:
> Please help!
>
> I posted this last week to a coupla dozen newsgroups, but never saw
> my original
> message pop up, so I'm trying again.
>
>
> I have an ASUS P5A-B mobo with the latest BIOS installed (1105).
> It has an AMD-K6-2/500AFX processor. All mobo jumpers are correct for
> this CPU.
> It's maxed on memory (768Mb).
> I put in an old WD 20Gb HD & installed Win98SE.
>
> It intermittently locks up (must power cycle to clear).
> When I shutdown, it either:
> 1) hangs at "Windows 98 is shutting down" screen; or
> 2) reboots.
>
> Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Barker
This link may help:
http://aumha.org/win4/a/shutdown.htm