Frustrating..What else can I try?...

[Lotus 0]

Ever since the release of SP3 for Win2k Pro, my system freezes during shutdown. It saves settings, then says windows is shutting down, and when that dialog goes away, FREEZE. I can hear my hard drive shutdown the moment it happens. I have tried everything I can think of;

 

Up[censored] BIOS

Up[censored] IDE Controllers

Up[censored] all software on my system

Up[censored] fully via Windows Update (As of 12:00 today)

There is nothing in the event viewer reguarding this..I assume because windows is already shutdown at the point of this happening.

 

Is there any program that will log what is going on during shutdown, or is there a log I can currently look at.

 

The computer is a work pc... Dell Dimension L933r

 

Is there anything else I can try? I reformatted about a month ago and as soon as SP3 was installed the problem was back. What was changed in SP3 as far as shutdown related files/services?

 

I am going to go look through the Knoledge Base AGAIN heh...maybe I missed something. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

Also...

 

Since SP4 my system keeps doing a memory dump 3 or 4 times a day. Any insight?

 

I'll look up something on that as well.

 

Thanks!

 

- Lotus

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

update hardware drivers?

 

is there anything in the Event viewer around the time of the dumps?

[Lotus 0]

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update hardware drivers?

is there anything in the Event viewer around the time of the dumps?

Hardware is all updated as of this morning..

And nothing in the event viewer.

It's something that started in Service Pack 3, I just can't figure out what is the cause. It's really annoying. I have been looking on the net and can't find a solution...yet.