Any USB devices installed? Or virtual CD emulators running?

I'm sorry I can't help, but I've been having the same problem with my Win98SE tower at my mother's house. 🙁 Maybe it's a problem with a DOS driver?

Used to have this back in the day. I always figured it has to so with hardware changes. I usually reinstalled windows when it happened. Would be nice with a cleaner solution though!

This happens to me with my windows 98 pentium 1 PC. Generally if I tap the esc key a few times that seems to make it continue to the you can now shut down your PC message.

Linoleum wrote on 2025-12-18, 22:15:

Any USB devices installed? Or virtual CD emulators running?

I have a VIA card with 5 USB ports and I use Daemon Tools 3.47

vico wrote on 2025-12-19, 16:35:

Linoleum wrote on 2025-12-18, 22:15:

Any USB devices installed? Or virtual CD emulators running?

I have a VIA card with 5 USB ports and I use Daemon Tools 3.47

Deamon Tool was the worst for me and was hanging the shutdown process on all my machines... Just for sanity sake, did you try without the VIA card installed?

Oh interesting, come to think of it I have daemon tools installed as well!

dukeofurl wrote on 2025-12-19, 20:48:

Oh interesting, come to think of it I have daemon tools installed as well!

I should add that sometimes Daemon Tools itself was the culprit, and other times it was the required USB driver package causing the issue. Ever since I switched to XUSBSUPP for USB support on Windows 95, I haven’t run into any problems.