Dennis myers wrote I thought some of you would be interested to know that since I changed out motherboards I no longer have the shutdown problem that prints out a bunch of errors and then does not shut off. Now the system shuts down and turns itself off. The MoBo is a Soyo Sy K7VTA pro and a Duron 900 mhz processor, with all my previous sound card, video card, NIC etc plugged in. Gkrellm now shows the cpu fan speed and temp. I plugged everything in and powered up the system and nothing needed reconfiguring, unlike what would go on if I was running that other OS. Linux is the Best! I need to learn Python or Perl now, just so I understand more about what is going on inside some of these scripts. Back to the point. It appears that the shutdown problem is a motherboard issue, having to do with the bios settings for shutdown? Or is it a chipset issue? I don't know, I just know I don't have the problem anymore. JFYI. I have this problem too. I have an Epox mainboard with and amd 400 chip Are there any fixes about?