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JCH · 09-17-2001, 07:21 PM

Am new to 2K so please bear with me. I am currently setting up a new machine. Current specs are: Antec SX830 case;Epox D3VA motherboard; 2 PIII850 cpu;512mb Micron pc133 sdram; Matrox G400 video card;Sony 48x cd-rom;Teac512eb cd-rw; floppy; Quantum Fireball AS 7200 hard drive. The hard drive is on the highpoint controller; the cd-rom is primary master and the cd-rw is secondary master. After partioning and formatting I loaded Win98 on primary partion C;installed DX8, installed latest VIA 4in 1's and installed video drivers. No problems. From Win98 I then installed Win2k on partion D;installed SP2; installed DX8;installed latest VIA 4in1's; installed video drivers. No problems. After making sure evrything was working properly and stable, I shut down and installed the cd-rw. Booted to Win98;it found the new drive; everything looks as it should and works properly. Booted into Win2K; it found the new drive; everything looked as it should but now I cant shut sown or restart in Win2K. When I choose either restart or shutdown, all I'm left with is the blue backround and the mouse cursor. The cursor moves but no restart...no shutdown...nothing. Any ideas?
Thanks...sorry this post is so long

09-17-2001, 07:21 PM	#1
JCH Member (8 bit) Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 151	2K wont shutdown or restart Am new to 2K so please bear with me. I am currently setting up a new machine. Current specs are: Antec SX830 case;Epox D3VA motherboard; 2 PIII850 cpu;512mb Micron pc133 sdram; Matrox G400 video card;Sony 48x cd-rom;Teac512eb cd-rw; floppy; Quantum Fireball AS 7200 hard drive. The hard drive is on the highpoint controller; the cd-rom is primary master and the cd-rw is secondary master. After partioning and formatting I loaded Win98 on primary partion C;installed DX8, installed latest VIA 4in 1's and installed video drivers. No problems. From Win98 I then installed Win2k on partion D;installed SP2; installed DX8;installed latest VIA 4in1's; installed video drivers. No problems. After making sure evrything was working properly and stable, I shut down and installed the cd-rw. Booted to Win98;it found the new drive; everything looks as it should and works properly. Booted into Win2K; it found the new drive; everything looked as it should but now I cant shut sown or restart in Win2K. When I choose either restart or shutdown, all I'm left with is the blue backround and the mouse cursor. The cursor moves but no restart...no shutdown...nothing. Any ideas? Thanks...sorry this post is so long