Not quite sure I follow you here...

Shutdown the machine, then do what from there?

Direct boot?  Boot from a win boot disk?

Thanks for the help!

-ed-


>
>  > Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the
>>  infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am no expert
>>  but would LM 8 disabling DMA carryover to the windows boot? That may be
>>  what slowed down the system.  This is just speculation on my part, cause
>>  I'm no expert. Maybe Tom Brinkman or one of the other hardware gurus knows
>>  for sure.
>
>
>Dennis has a good point.  Earlier I worked with one SONY model where 
>hardware changes
>made by linux were not reset by a warm boot, so a reboot to windows 
>was impossible
>because the processor (which comes up in 80286 compatibility mode) 
>could not be talked
>out of 386 protected mode and would not allow 286 instructions to 
>try to manipulate A20
>and higher address lines.
>
>Try a reboot with a power down and a direct boot to windows.  The 
>PIO disk mode settings might
>be carrying over.  We should have out a kernel that fixes this 
>problem in a matter of days.
>
>Civileme
>
>
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