I am having problems getting an old Zeos computer to shutdown and/or restart correctly. The computer originally had Win95 installed & everything worked OK. I reformatted and installed clean Win98SE.
Even during the install of Win98, whenever the computer had to restart (which is several times) it would hang at the "Windows is shutting down" screen.
Im pretty sure that the problem is associated with the Realtek Ethernet PCI card.
First of all, let me say that in the BIOS there is a setting to enable/disable the on-board LAN Ethernet controller. Initially, this setting was disabled by default. The network adaptor worked irrespective of this setting being disabled, but the computer would hang on shutdown.
I tried disabling the Realtek card in Device Manager and the computer shut down correctly at least if I switched off cold & restarted it did so 3 times. However my next test was to shutdown and press the reset button. The first time after using the reset button, the computer did not shut down properly. This continued ad nauseum.
I tried removing the Realtek card via Device Manager and the computer shut down. On restart, it was detected as new hardware & reinstalled & of course after that the shutdown problem returned.
I then tried enabling the Lan Ethernet controller in the BIOS I was able to get the computer to shut down correctly about 3 times in a row with this setting enabled and the Realtek card enabled in device manager ie I actually had the network card working & computer shutting down correctly & thought I had the problem licked! But! It only worked as long as I shut down cold again, as soon as I tried to reset from the It is safe to shut down screen, the next shutdown hung again.
I should add that every time I restart the computer whether from cold or reset that scandisk doesnt run. Also that the Bootlog.txt had the correct Terminate & End Terminate Kernel at the end of the file in fact I suspect something odd here as well, because I thought that the Bootlog.txt file was rewritten for every boot but it appears not to change whether the shutdown is successful or not. I did run scandisk manually once & it detected an error in the boot sector which it then reported as fixed.
The thing that first alerted me to the Network card as an issue was that when I hooked this computer up to another one via the network card, it magically shutdown every time but soon as I disconnected and used it standalone, it would not shutdown unless I disabled the network card. In fact, once I even tried with both computers connected, pulling out the cable (on the other computer) & shutting down it hung. As it hung, I reinserted the network cable and it then shutdown!
The network card is on IRQ9 and there is also IRQ steering on 9. I cant change it to another setting manually even though I have some free as when I go into device manager to change it, there is no option to set the configuration manually, even after deselecting the autoselect box.
In the IRQ table, there are a few settings shown as free, however they are taken up by sound card & midi devices, which dont show up in the IRQ table.
So, in summary:
Computer shuts down if network card is being used. Computer hangs if network card not being used, (whether cable attached or not) unless it is disabled in the hardware profile.
Id like to be able to get it right so that the card can be enabled & still allow the computer to shut down correctly.
Even during the install of Win98, whenever the computer had to restart (which is several times) it would hang at the "Windows is shutting down" screen.
Im pretty sure that the problem is associated with the Realtek Ethernet PCI card.
First of all, let me say that in the BIOS there is a setting to enable/disable the on-board LAN Ethernet controller. Initially, this setting was disabled by default. The network adaptor worked irrespective of this setting being disabled, but the computer would hang on shutdown.
I tried disabling the Realtek card in Device Manager and the computer shut down correctly at least if I switched off cold & restarted it did so 3 times. However my next test was to shutdown and press the reset button. The first time after using the reset button, the computer did not shut down properly. This continued ad nauseum.
I tried removing the Realtek card via Device Manager and the computer shut down. On restart, it was detected as new hardware & reinstalled & of course after that the shutdown problem returned.
I then tried enabling the Lan Ethernet controller in the BIOS I was able to get the computer to shut down correctly about 3 times in a row with this setting enabled and the Realtek card enabled in device manager ie I actually had the network card working & computer shutting down correctly & thought I had the problem licked! But! It only worked as long as I shut down cold again, as soon as I tried to reset from the It is safe to shut down screen, the next shutdown hung again.
I should add that every time I restart the computer whether from cold or reset that scandisk doesnt run. Also that the Bootlog.txt had the correct Terminate & End Terminate Kernel at the end of the file in fact I suspect something odd here as well, because I thought that the Bootlog.txt file was rewritten for every boot but it appears not to change whether the shutdown is successful or not. I did run scandisk manually once & it detected an error in the boot sector which it then reported as fixed.
The thing that first alerted me to the Network card as an issue was that when I hooked this computer up to another one via the network card, it magically shutdown every time but soon as I disconnected and used it standalone, it would not shutdown unless I disabled the network card. In fact, once I even tried with both computers connected, pulling out the cable (on the other computer) & shutting down it hung. As it hung, I reinserted the network cable and it then shutdown!
The network card is on IRQ9 and there is also IRQ steering on 9. I cant change it to another setting manually even though I have some free as when I go into device manager to change it, there is no option to set the configuration manually, even after deselecting the autoselect box.
In the IRQ table, there are a few settings shown as free, however they are taken up by sound card & midi devices, which dont show up in the IRQ table.
So, in summary:
Computer shuts down if network card is being used. Computer hangs if network card not being used, (whether cable attached or not) unless it is disabled in the hardware profile.
Id like to be able to get it right so that the card can be enabled & still allow the computer to shut down correctly.
