oscar51

For what it's worth: I restarted in "safe" mode and when I chose "restart," it worked; did not need to press the reset button. So, is this a driver problem? If so, which? Very wierd.

Yes, I checked this as you requested and the value is"0" Perhaps I should just reinstall. Thanks for the reply.

Gigabyte GA7DPXDW-P, latest bios Windows 2000 SP2 LSI 53C1030 SCSI HDA All motherboard drivers installed. I thought that it might be a good idea to "wipe" the pagefile before shuttingdown or restarting, so I enabled the following: Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Local Policies > Security Options > Clear virtual memory pagefile when system shutsdown I found that this took longer to do than I would suffer, so I disabled it. That's when the problem occured. When doing a shutdown or restart, the system just "sits" after the message "Windows is shutting down." The hardrive becomes active for a second or so, then...it just hangs there. I need to press the reset button. I removed the AGP, PCI bridge and IDE busmaster drivers and reinstalled just the AGP and PCI bridge drivers. No joy. Open to suggestions.