I have a question about When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs and does absolutely nothing. i have to shut it down manually.i have xp pro:

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mine does the same, no known cure yet, but I am told it is due to a driver mismatch, are all your drivers digitally signed & approved? mine shuts windows down but wont power down.


On Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 11:13 pm, Sergio wrote:
>I have a question about When
>I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs and does absolutely nothing.
>i have to shut it down manually.i have xp pro:

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I am not sure, just formated my win 98 disk, put xp pro on and can not shut down either. I think it is a BIOS issue, checking around will post if I find a cure

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I had the same problem with XP and found the solution by tweaking the settings in the Advanced Power Management portion of the Control Panel.... I'm sorry that I don't remember what exact setting it was - except that now my machine shuts down as it is supposed to.... Hope this helps...


On Tuesday, December 31, 2002 at 3:59 pm, Rick wrote:
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>I am not sure, just formated my win 98 disk, put xp pro on and can not shut down
>either. I think it is a BIOS issue, checking around will post if I find a cure

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Hello Did you find a cure? My XP won't shut down. Displays a sign that it is "shutting down". Is this sposed to take forever? Mine does.

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If you have Nero installed on your PC, uninstall it as ther are many bugs which causes conflict with XP. This is reported on Microsofts Knowledgebase website but I'll be damned if I can find it when I need it!!!


On Tuesday, December 31, 2002 at 3:59 pm, Rick wrote:
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>I am not sure, just formated my win 98 disk, put xp pro on and can not shut down
>either. I think it is a BIOS issue, checking around will post if I find a cure

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I am almost positive it is the trigger switch inside your power supply that is not switching off. Your windows is trying to shut down, however:the power supply is not switching off, so power will always be present. Change your power supply or just continue shutting it off manually.


On Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 1:14 pm, farnz wrote:
>mine does the same, no known cure yet, but I am told it is due to a driver mismatch,
>are all your drivers digitally signed & approved? mine shuts windows down but wont
>power down.
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I have built a new computer since then, so it is no longer an issue for me!


On Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 11:04 pm, Paul wrote:
>I am almost positive it is the trigger switch inside your power supply that is not
>switching off. Your windows is trying to shut down, however:the power supply is not
>switching off, so power will always be present.
>Change your power supply or just continue shutting it off manually.
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With XP you may have to change bios settings and timings.  This cured my problem 
- ram speed vs. agressive speed settings - worked at a mid range of clocking but 
not at highest or slowest settings.







On Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 11:04 pm, Paul wrote:

>I am almost positive it is the trigger switch inside your power supply that is not 

>switching off. Your windows is trying to shut down, however:the power supply is 
not 

>switching off, so power will always be present.

>Change your power supply or just continue shutting it off manually.

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Choupicc here: Hi there: My xp does the exact same thing. It restarts ok, but it won't shut down at all. If you find the problem please email it to me (Choupicc@HotMail.Com) Thanks.


On Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 10:24 pm, Kirk wrote:
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>Hello
>Did you find a cure? My XP won't shut down. Displays a sign that it is "shutting
>down". Is this sposed to take forever? Mine does.

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Ditto. Built 4 new PCs. 1 x P4/Gigabyte Mobo, 3 x Sempron/MIS Mobo. All with XP Pro. The 3 Sempron/ MIS combo will not power off. XP shuts down to black screen, but power is still on. Have researched MSoft kbid=810903, tried ACPI settings, checked Control Panel power settings, blah blah. I would be keen to hear from some-one who has experienced this and FIXED it.


On Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 5:06 pm, Choupicc wrote:
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>Choupicc here:
>Hi there: My xp does the exact same thing. It restarts ok, but it won't shut down
>at all. If you find the problem please email it to me (Choupicc@HotMail.Com) Thanks.
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I had this same problem for a while, I fixed it by uninstalling the NVidia nForce drivers. It was causing an IRQ conflict as well as unregistering my programs.


On Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 1:14 pm, mark wrote:
>mine does the same, no known cure yet, but I am told it is due to a driver mismatch,
>are all your drivers digitally signed & approved? mine shuts windows down but wont
>power down.
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>

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Ok, so I had this problem too. It's pretty weird if you ask me, I also had an annoying lag that came with it. My power settings were set to "Always On". All I had done was switch it to the computer type, Desktop/Home computer. Then bang, everything fixed.

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