Pc "Forgets?" to shut down

[Caveman™]

Hey guyz everytime I turn off my pc it goes through the normal shudown process. But after its 'saved my settings' it just doesnt go off.. Any ideas, Tips, suggestions?

 

[|tera|]

Are you running XP? Check your display driver, I found that as the most common problem in shut downs, especially Nvidia drivers on Vista

 

[Caveman™]

Yeah I am on XP. Display driver seems to fine. Could it perhaps be to do with my registry? As I do customize it

 

[|tera|]

Could be a registry setting.

Check this out:
http://www.xpdeveloper.com/srch-sd1dt9izia.html

 

[Caveman™]

Not finding anything of use tho. Will keep looking thanks

 

[|tera|]

Sorry, I'm on GPRS this weekend, so I didn't test those links, a bit of googling should give the answer though

 

[Caveman™]

lol my thoughts exactly

 

[The_Techie]

I'd say it's a driver problem, start your PC in safe mode and attempt to shut down. If it shuts down properly then I think we can safely blame a rogue driver.

 

[killadoob]

yea the biggest problem with this is finding what causes it

i ghosted a laptop and i uninstalled and reinstalled every driver, i never got it to shut down

my client has to hold in the power button

i said i would need to reload the whole OS but she was not interested and told me its not such a big problem

it a really annoying problem though and very hard to trouble shoot at times

 

[xzibit.]

Sorry, I'm on GPRS this weekend, so I didn't test those links, a bit of googling should give the answer though

Always works for me

 

[kronoSX]

i like those mini apps that shut down your pc forcfully,there are so many,just download 1 of them