From: "andreas" 
Subject: Re: WIN95 hangs on shutdown screen on 4.11 server
Date: 1998/12/03
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: Technocom
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.novell,comp.sys.novell,fido.novell,info.novell,novell.community.chat,novell.directoryservices.nds,novell.netwareclient.win95win98

I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM AND IT WAS ONLY RESOLVED BY REPLACING MOTHERBOARD AND
NETCARD?????
ALSO I DOWNLOADED THE LATEST 3COM DRIVERS FOR THE CARD..........
YOU MAY WELL I WENT TO FAR BUT THE PC WAS STILL WITHIN THE YEAR

good luck   Andreas

Mark M. Reed wrote in message ...
>Here's my problem:
>
>We recently upgraded our old 486 workstations running win95 to new Acer
>pent
>II 266 machines running win95.  I use 3Com Etherlink III NICs with the
>newest
>driver 6.01.  When a user goes to shutdown while logged into the network,
>the
>system will hang on the WAIT WHILE WINDOWS SHUTS DOWN screen for about 3-5
>minutes.  Sometimes it will shutdown normally, but most of the times it
>hangs
>for a period of time.  Sometimes it will not even shutdown at all.  This
>only
>happens when logged into the network. If I log out, it will shut down fine.
>
>I have consulted ACER, 3com, and searched the Novell & MS knowledgebases.
>I
>have checked for conflicting IRQs, watchdog conflicts, and even disabled
>Client32's autoreconnect.  This also occurs when we use Client32 AND the MS
>Novell Client.
>
>Has anyone encountered this?
>Does anyone have any ideas?
>HELP!!!!