Mine always did that - I thought it was normal.
Mine was an old mobo, though, and no power management smarts.
edit: fobs beat be by a millisecond, and his post reminds me - there are shutdown issues in 98SE that are worth pursuing in
http://support.microsoft.com/default...91;ln];kbhowto
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I thinks fobs and I are in a duelling edits loop.
I have stopped now, fobs.
Cheers
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