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Hello, I can't see any IRQ conflicts being the issue. I've checked, moved around and double checked as far as that's concerned. But Win 98SE consistantly hangs on the Shutdown splash screen when I try to restart my computer from the start menu. If I hold down the shift key to restart windows only, then it hangs on the Windows is restarting your computer screen (or whatever it says--black screen with 'restarting' phrase at the top of the screen). When I simply shut down my computer from the start menu, it does not hang, and shut's down properly. Any suggestions, files to look for or remove, etc.

Would be appreciated as I've exhausted my knowledge of this issue. Thanks, Mark RE: Win 98SE HANGS on restart, but NOT shutdown. (Programmer) 11 Feb 01 09:40. Castells The Internet Galaxy Pdf Editor. Just FYI fit- I have a user with the same problem. Tried everything you have including the suggestions from butch, pxb & lez. I even used a lil'magic dust.

Still no fix. Happens on a DELL Optiplex. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with DELL/BIOS. When I first bought it, it worked. 3,000 software installs later...

I've gave my user a couple options: A: - If you need to restart, you might as well shut down (same thing + 1 minute) B: - We could use the restore disk that the PC came with (goodbye problems... Goodbye software) For some reason, shutdown doesn't seem to bother the user too bad anymore. Odin Sphere Iso Ntsc Pal Converter. RE: Win 98SE HANGS on restart, but NOT shutdown. Guest (visitor) 16 Feb 01 10:15. Yeah, I have the Western Digital EZ-Disk software installed on my hard drive. I didn't know that made a difference. I guess I'll just have to do a complete shutdown everytime I want to restart.