Terrible Shut Down - Help

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Travis King

For the longest time now, I've been frustrated with RC2's poor shut-down.
I'm assuming it might be a hardware conflict. When I go to shut down my
computer or restart it, the sidebar will disappear after about five seconds,
but then the computer just sits there and idles for over a minute and a half
before it finally decides to shut down. I actually timed it once and it
took my computer over two minutes just to shut down. While it's sitting
there idling, it still is responsive, but some things such as the task
manager will not work, so I can't get into that to see if there's a process
that's causing it to stop. I normally get impatient and just do a reset
instead of waiting for Vista to restart. On occasion, it will shut-down or
restart like it's supposed to, but not very often. Do you think this could
be a driver problem, a software problem, or is this a bug that was in Vista
RC2 x86? Thanks.

Specs:
Asus K8N motherboard
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ OC'd @ 1.8GHz
1.5GB of DDR RAM
Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x with 256MB GDDR2 video RAM (it has the most
recent drivers from Ati and it still doesn't fix this issue)
Creative Audigy sound card (using Creative's latest drivers, which are
designed for RC1)
WD 80GB 7200RPM IDE 2MB cache HD (Windows XP)
WD 120GB 7200RPM IDE 8MB cache HD (Windows Vista on E: and personal file
storage on D:)
Lite On 16x DVD ROM drive
Memorex 52x32x52 CD-RW drive
Thermaltake 430-watt power supply
 
I have found the following helps me - and I am not sure why.

I shut down the computer the normal way. I don't care if it takes 2 minutes
or 5 minutes. When once the computer shuts down, I reboot. I do nothing,
except allow the desktop to stabilize (the CPU usage to taper off - disk
action to almost stop). I then shutdown again. This one usually works
correctly.

From that point on I have had no problems. This worked on three different
builds up to and including RTM.

The one time it didn't work I had driver problems.

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Travis said:
For the longest time now, I've been frustrated with RC2's poor
shut-down. I'm assuming it might be a hardware conflict. When I go to
shut down my computer or restart it, the sidebar will disappear after
about five seconds, but then the computer just sits there and idles for
over a minute and a half before it finally decides to shut down. I
actually timed it once and it took my computer over two minutes just to
shut down. While it's sitting there idling, it still is responsive, but
some things such as the task manager will not work, so I can't get into
that to see if there's a process that's causing it to stop. I normally
get impatient and just do a reset instead of waiting for Vista to
restart. On occasion, it will shut-down or restart like it's supposed
to, but not very often. Do you think this could be a driver problem, a
software problem, or is this a bug that was in Vista RC2 x86? Thanks.

Specs:
Asus K8N motherboard
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ OC'd @ 1.8GHz
1.5GB of DDR RAM
Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x with 256MB GDDR2 video RAM (it has the most
recent drivers from Ati and it still doesn't fix this issue)
Creative Audigy sound card (using Creative's latest drivers, which are
designed for RC1)
WD 80GB 7200RPM IDE 2MB cache HD (Windows XP)
WD 120GB 7200RPM IDE 8MB cache HD (Windows Vista on E: and personal file
storage on D:)
Lite On 16x DVD ROM drive
Memorex 52x32x52 CD-RW drive
Thermaltake 430-watt power supply
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i too have had shutdown issue.
it took around 5mins to shut down (a full power off shutdown, not
restart/S3/hibernation).
happened twice. the 1st time i thought sommat died - so press the
restart button onfront of case to restart. handful of hours later on the
subsequent shutdown it does it again. i leave it and this takes 5mins.

not happened since. drivers have remained unchanged, installed a few
games, nothing really hardware related. complete a shutdown and it's
been fine eversince.

sry i cant help, but ur not the only one with the odd shutdown issue. im
running the 64bit version.

tim
 
what sometimes happens is a program does not respond to the system request to stop. it might take several times before the program finally responds.
I occasionally get messages that XXXX has failed to respond, Shutdown Immediately or Wait.,
that would be a good indication of a slightly misbehaving program.

you could use MSCONFIG and perform some tests. preventing each program one at a time from running and try shutting down to try and see which one MIGHT be the cause.



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For the longest time now, I've been frustrated with RC2's poor shut-down.
I'm assuming it might be a hardware conflict. When I go to shut down my
computer or restart it, the sidebar will disappear after about five seconds,
but then the computer just sits there and idles for over a minute and a half
before it finally decides to shut down. I actually timed it once and it
took my computer over two minutes just to shut down. While it's sitting
there idling, it still is responsive, but some things such as the task
manager will not work, so I can't get into that to see if there's a process
that's causing it to stop. I normally get impatient and just do a reset
instead of waiting for Vista to restart. On occasion, it will shut-down or
restart like it's supposed to, but not very often. Do you think this could
be a driver problem, a software problem, or is this a bug that was in Vista
RC2 x86? Thanks.

Specs:
Asus K8N motherboard
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ OC'd @ 1.8GHz
1.5GB of DDR RAM
Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8x with 256MB GDDR2 video RAM (it has the most
recent drivers from Ati and it still doesn't fix this issue)
Creative Audigy sound card (using Creative's latest drivers, which are
designed for RC1)
WD 80GB 7200RPM IDE 2MB cache HD (Windows XP)
WD 120GB 7200RPM IDE 8MB cache HD (Windows Vista on E: and personal file
storage on D:)
Lite On 16x DVD ROM drive
Memorex 52x32x52 CD-RW drive
Thermaltake 430-watt power supply
 
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