Hello guys,

Yesterday I aquired a Creative Soundblaster AWE 32 Value CT3910. I of course installed it in my PC and got it working well. 😀
Because of some unrelated MS DOS stuff I was trying, my HDD filesystem was damaged, so I had to completely reinstall Windows 98SE. 😢

Since reinstalling the system seems to hang or freeze at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. I know this is a common problem with Windows 98SE and tried several things to fix it.
I tried the Microsoft Shutdown fix, disabling startup programs, and another complete reinstall.
One of the possible contributing factors might be that I'm using Windows 98SE with ACPI and not APM. I installed it using the "setup /p j" command and not by changing the registry afterwards.
I use it because I have/had a dual boot Win2k partition and with my system configuration I would not get automatic shutdown in Win2k with APM.
It worked fine before so I doubt this is the culprit and if it is then only because of an incompatability with the AWE32.

If you guys have any ideas as to what is wrong and how to fix it I'd appreciate the help.

Here are the full system specs:

Motherboard: Supermicro P6DGU, Dual CPU, Intel 440GX Chipset
CPU: Two Intel Pentium III "Coppermine" 1GHz Slot 1, 100MHz FSB
RAM: Two 256MB sticks of PC133 SDRAM running at 100MHz
Primary Graphics: MSI Geforce2 Ti Pro-VT 64MB
Seconday Graphics: Two STB Blackmagic 3D 12MB (3dfx V2) in SLI
Primary Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster Live!
Secondary Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster AWE32 Value CT3910
Networking: 3Com 10/100 PCI NIC
USB: USB 2.0 Card
HDD: 120GB Samsung Spinpoint 7200rpm IDE HDD
Primary Disc Drive: NEC DVD Drive
Secondary Disc Drive: TX Jupiter CD-RW Drive
Primary Floppy Drive: 3,5' 1.44MB Floppy Drive
Secondary Floppy Drive: 3,5' 1.44MB Floppy Drive

If you want to see some pictures of the build when it was still working here's a thread I made about it.