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When you get no screen and no beeps but all the fans are running it usually indicates a dead CPU.

This looks to be a common problem. I didnt have such a big problem with the long shutdown time. My problem was that my PC's behaviour had changed from what it was before. When that happens, I keep thinking whats wrong, which is very annoying.

Weeee i fixed the problem. It turned out that it is the Q329170 hotfix from winupdate that give these symptoms. I was told this at another forum where i asked too, and after uninstalling the hotfix windows shuts down in a matter of seconds like it used too. So nice that Microsoft releases "hotfixes" which decreases performance. Well thank you all for the help anyway.

I added all the changes, but it didnt help:( I really cant figure this one out.

ehh, I noticed that the article is made for WinXP. I got 2000. Isnt is possible that im going to mess something up by adding those registry settings, cause Win2k is older. Anyone have any experience with these tweaks under Win2k.

Thx alot. Ill try the different and see if it helps.

The last couple of days my windows 2000 fully updated have started to become very slow at shutting down. It just stands at saving your settings for about a minute or 2. Anyone know about away to make this go faster.

It is a known issue that Seagate harddrives works like shit in RAID. U cant fix it. Its something with the firmware in the seagate harddrives and seagate themselfs have been unable to solve it.

Here we go with my system: CPU: AMD Athlon Palomino 1800XP+ cooled by Thermal take Silent Storm Motherboard: ASUS A7V333 with onboard Raid HDD: Seagate Barracuda IV 40Gb & IBM 60GXP 40Gb RAM: 2*512 Kingston 2100 DDR RAM VGA: ASUS AGP-V8200 GeForce3 64MB (oldschool) Sound: creative SoundBlaster Live! Player 5.1 DVD-ROM: 16x/48x Asus E616 Burner: Yamaha CRW-F1 44x write 24x rewrite 44x read (Sweet!) Mpegcard: Real Magic Hollywood+ LAN: 3COM 3C905C-TX-M Thermaltake case. 5 fans. One of them a LED fan in the site sitting in a window 430W antec True power PSU Screen: 17" AOC TFT OS: Win2k

I have checked that and it doesnt make any difference

I have a little problem with my mail client in IE. 6.0 SP1. In some forums u can click on the users name if u want to write an e-mail to them. When i click such a name or any e-mail link i get this message. Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed Earlier I was using microsoft Outlook to view my mail over Hotmail. Outlook was very slow so i changed to outlook express with my Hotmail account. I think its some registry key u have to change to tell Internet Explorer where the mail client is situated. I just dont know where. BTW im running Win2k Sp3

It could also be because u are using SD-RAM with the ECS K7S5A. I have heard alot of weird stories with that mobo and SD-RAM. Is it possible for you to burrow a stick of DDR-RAM from a friend and try with that.

Sigmadesigns admits the problem. But they dont seem to do anything about it since the latest drivers on their website if from the end of 2000.

Im using the newest one from www.sigmadesigns.com

This is what it says in the readme that comes with the hollywood+: 1 - If you are using Microsoft Office XP and you have its utility CTFMON.EXE running, it'll stop DVD Station - the Hollywood Plus- DVD player from playing encrypted movies. This utility injects MSCTF.DLL in the memory space given by Windows to hardware and software manufacturers. A workaround is under investigation to avoid this conflict. A temporary solution is to disable this utility before the playback of movies : press CTRL+ALT+DEL, click on CTFMON.EXE, and click "End Task". After the movie playback, restart CTFMON.exe from Start-Run : ctfmon.exe & OK.