IMac 333 wont shutdown

My iMac 333 blue, wouldnt shutdown with OS 8.6. I figured it's time to update to OS 10.3.9 and I did, wiping out the hard drive and doing a clean (reformatting) install. Now the iMac wont shutdown AGAIN. It restarts ok. Is this a hardware thing? OS 8.6 is gone, only 10.3.9 is on it...??????

Steve,
I'm not sure about the not shutting down thing, maybe a disk permissions or a preferences thing would be my guess. (Do you have an automatic file back up on your system that is set to back up everything before shutdown?)
When I updated my iMac from Classic OS to OS X, I thought I had to update from 8.6 to 9.2.1 so that classic would work on OS X. I also had to update the computer firmware. If you didn't use the correct firmware update, that might cause both of your problems.
Just a guess.
as always,
just a rambling joe

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