Closing problem G400dh on Windows ME

[EiznuV]

Have installed Win.ME on my system and after installing the drivers for the Matrox G400 dual head the system wont close down anymore and will hang with just the mouse pointer showing in the screen.
Who can help me with this ?????
And 2 the 1 who can , thanks in advance !!!

spec's system are Abit Mainboard with AMD Athlon 700Mhz ,256Mb 100Mhz LGS Memory ,Promise Raid 66 contr. with 2 20Gb IBM Harddisks ,AOpen 8xDVD and a Sony 145E Writer.

[Elie]

Win98 had the shut down problem as well, Maybe Microsoft forgot about this problem, Hmmm interesting.

What you can do is locate the shutdown patch for win98 and apply it, see if that helps.

Regards,
Elie

[Haig]

You can also try playing with different aperature settings and see if that helps.

Haig

[RAB]

You might also try:

Start|Run|"msconfig"|General tab - Advanced|check "Disable fast shutdown"

RAB

[Kosh Naranek]

I would go with the aperture size.

BTW there is no " Disable fast shutdown" in Win Me

[Mountain]

Try the latest VIA4in1 drivers, it solved the problem for me

[mynx]

I have seen a lot of complaints about this problem with ME. It doesn't seem video card specific. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12942.html

[Jorden]

Might I ask the obvious question and get an answer? Did you install WinME on a harddrive just as is, or did you upgrade from a Win98 version?

If the latter, which version of Win98 did you upgrade from? If SE, did you have the fast shutdown box checked in START-> RUN-> msinfo32 [Enter]->tools (it's a menu)->system configuration->advanced ??

If not, then that might be your problem. If you upgraded from Win98SE, and did use the Save old Windows version, uninstall WinME to restore Win98SE, then check that one box, reboot, then reinstall WinME from Win98SE.

I know this sounds like a big roundabout route. But sometimes Bill's programs want you to do these things

Jord.

[Dr. Matrox]

I guess your mother board using via chip set isn't it?
I had the same problen and i was needed to install the 4 in 1 drivers and then before doing restart install menualy the agp driver.
That's fixed it!