shutdown issues

[Martin]

I have an IBM Win 2000 notebook which has recently
started behaving inconsistently when attempting to
shutdown. Sometimes it shuts down properly, and other
times instead of shutting down the notebook simply
restarts and the only way to power it down is to take the
battery out (creating check disk issues). I've attempted
to trace this to a particular offending program or
process without success. Any suggestions?

thanks

 

[Guest]

This might help. It was a good source of info for me, as
I was having similar problems.. hopefully you find
something that works.

http://aumha.org/win5/kbshtdwn.htm


Later,
-Justus

 

[Gerry Voras]

With portables, I always do a defrag and scandisk on the drive, make sure
all the power save junk is turned off in the OS, flash the BIOS, and make
sure all the acpi, wake-on, and power save stuff is turned off in BIOS as
well.

 

[Gert B. Frob]

I have an IBM Win 2000 notebook which has recently
started behaving inconsistently when attempting to
shutdown. Sometimes it shuts down properly, and other
times instead of shutting down the notebook simply
restarts and the only way to power it down is to take the
battery out (creating check disk issues). I've attempted
to trace this to a particular offending program or
process without success. Any suggestions?

thanks

Left click "my computer" then properties>advanced>startup and recovery.
Once there, uncheck "automatically reboot". The next time you encounter the
error that is causing your reboot, you should get a blue screen with the
error described. Then take it from there.