Windows 7 Shutdown Failure !

[Jola]

I have installed W7 Home Premium on my Sony SZ notebook, everything works very well, but the OS hangs on shutdown (blank screen) and doesn't shut down - this is a PITA with a notebook as you then have to take the battery out. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, it worked fine on Vista Business.

The last time I saw this was with someone else's Sony notebook running XP, and in that case it turned out to be Norton AV causing the problem. But I don't have Norton AV on this notebook.

Any ideas ?

PS : I have checked the event logs, don't really see anything unusual there.

 

[Overmind]

Did you do an upgrade or clean install?

 

[bekdik]

use msconfig to disable all startup apps and test shutdown - if shutdown is ok, find the offender by way or elimination.

But first check that ypur av isn't doing a scan.

BTW you shpuld be able to power off by pressing the power button for 60 secs

 

[Jola]

Did you do an upgrade or clean install?

It was a clean install, but I had to use some Vista drivers, Sony have been quite bad with W7 drivers, so I guess that it could be one of those causing the problem.