- Dec 31, 2007
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I have been dealing with a problem on my NT4/SP6a workstation. This machine has a fairly new install (3 months maybe) & has been rock solid stability wise. It is a Abit BF6 BX chipset mobo/Celeron433/384MB machine.
I went to shut it down last night & out of the blue it refused! I couldn't log off or restart either. I have made no hardware/software changes & had never encountered this problem before. I have been running NT4 on this exact machine with all the same adapters for over 2 years. I frequently reinstall to keep things "fresh".
What happens is after being on the computer for a short while, if I go to either shutdown/restart/logoff, nothing happens!!! I can continue working on my pc as if I didn't try to shutdown or restart. But if I try it a second time, I get the hourglass & the screen "darkens" as if it will shutdown, but nothing more. It will just stay on this screen forever until I press the shutdown button.
Now, after restarting, I almost always get a blue screen (kmode exception blah blah...win32k.sys) during bootup. I reboot once again then all is fine, until I have to shutdown again that is. Then I repeat the whole process!! The blue screen error happens about 60% of the time I'd guess.
I have noticed that once I boot the computer, if I immediately try to shutdown/restart/logoff, it works!!! But after a while on the computer, it's a no go.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ron_Jeremy
If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.
I went to shut it down last night & out of the blue it refused! I couldn't log off or restart either. I have made no hardware/software changes & had never encountered this problem before. I have been running NT4 on this exact machine with all the same adapters for over 2 years. I frequently reinstall to keep things "fresh".
What happens is after being on the computer for a short while, if I go to either shutdown/restart/logoff, nothing happens!!! I can continue working on my pc as if I didn't try to shutdown or restart. But if I try it a second time, I get the hourglass & the screen "darkens" as if it will shutdown, but nothing more. It will just stay on this screen forever until I press the shutdown button.
Now, after restarting, I almost always get a blue screen (kmode exception blah blah...win32k.sys) during bootup. I reboot once again then all is fine, until I have to shutdown again that is. Then I repeat the whole process!! The blue screen error happens about 60% of the time I'd guess.
I have noticed that once I boot the computer, if I immediately try to shutdown/restart/logoff, it works!!! But after a while on the computer, it's a no go.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ron_Jeremy
If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.
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