On 02/01/2017 08:27 AM, 98 Guy wrote:



Your only hope to overcome that is if there is a BIOS update for your
computer.


Unfortunately, no BIOS update available beyond the one I have. I was
thinking of trying something like gParted and therefore handling the
issue outside of Win in DOS, or some type of drive overlay software I
was reading about.



2) Even though I seem to shut down correctly (selecting shutdown from
the Me menu), when it reboots, I keep getting improper shutdown
detected

ME apparently had a shut-down bug that may not have been ever fixed, but
this seems to have caused a black screen and possibly the system hangs
at shutdown instead of actually shutting down.

See if the info in these 2 links are useful for your problem:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...down-correctly

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ard-disk-error

When your system restarts and asks you to scan the drive, and for those
times you say YES and let it scan, does it ever find a problem?


I actually solved this on my own, but thanks for the suggestions. It
seems that if I do a restart as opposed to an actual shutdown, then I
get the scandisk screen. Not sure why, but that's what's happening. As
long as I shutdown completely and then restart, I don't get the
scandisk. And when I did let the scandisk complete, it did not find
anything wrong.