windows 98 only wouldn't restart

Hi ... I just got this computer and i am running windows
98 only not 98se .. I am curious as to why this comp wouldn't ever
restart ... If i go to the start menu click shut down
highlight it on restart it wouldn't restart it just hang
there ... Even if i download something whatever it might
be and it tell you that before the update can be install
you have to restart i click ok it does show down but it
wouldn't reboot ... Please help

 

Quite frankly, sometimes computers don't work as advertised. We must remember that Windows computers are mongrels. They can be assembled from an array of parts. That they work at all is amazing!

Sometimes Windows hangs up on me when I download updates or install programs that require restarting. In those cases, I just hard shutdown and manually boot the computer again.

Usually, what has to be installed gets installed during the booting process.

 

So more or less it might not be the operating system it could just be the computer itself ???If so then i should take this comp back i do have 30days warranty???

 

Lots of times it's one program that causes the problem. I would do control/alt/delete. Shutdown one program, then try to restart. Go through each one, leave systray and explorer alone. You may find the culprit that way.

 

Yeah i know what you mean but when i first install windows 98 i was having that problem as well ... Now its okay

 

Hi ... I believe in my case its this computer not the software because it wouldn't restart from the get go... When i first installed windows 98 without the drivers just 98 it wouldn't do it from that point... It hasn't done so even after i downloaded all the drivers and taken all that i needed from windows updare site as well