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Re: Thinkpad won't shut down
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert G. Stevens wrote:
> At 10:21 AM 22/02/97 -0500, Richard L.F. Yuen wrote:
> >
> >Has anyone experenced any problems with the upgrading of the new system
> >bios for the 365XD? (P100,810HD,24RAM,DS)
> >
> >Now whenever I shutdown the notebook down I get the usual windows screen
> >"Please wait while your computer shuts down" and then nothing. The
> >notebook should power down and shut off by itself but it doesn't.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Richard
> >
> Richard:
>
> I had similiar problems on a 755 and a 701 and seemed to be related to
> network cards. If you have a network card these thinkpads shut down more
> reliably in Win 95 if I stopped the card first. This can be done through
> clicking on the PC Card icon in the task bar tray and the selecting the
> network card. My problems seem to have went away when I got a newer driver
> for the megahertz card. I have also found that if you get the "Please wait
I've tried it and it still doesn't work. The machine still doesn't shut
down after displaying the "please wait while your computer shuts down"
message. trying the ctrl-alt-del also fails to power down the machine. My
network card is the Megahertz XJEM3336 model which I purchased a month ago
so I believe I have the lastest drivers.
I seem to have another problem-the welcome screen message should cover the
whole screen but now I get a 5"x4" welcome message with a black border
instead of the usual large 9x6 one.
I've done the video updates last year so I believe this isn't the problem.
> while your computer shuts down" message and it does not shut down, you can
> press CTRL-ALT-DEL and when the close program window comes up select shut
> down. With all its improvements Win 95 is not perfect yet. At our office
> our main application runs on a IBM Clone using SCO UNIX and it can go for
> months without needing to be shutdown because software problems.
> Eventually Windows should get this reliable.
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Stevens
>
>
>
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