Won't shut down????
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Vampiric Rouge
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zort15 said:
Hum, my only thought on this would be to boot the windows cd and see if you cant do a repair on the install...
houssam_ballout
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try to shutdown ur pc from the command prompt, type shutdown -s
Ok, I gave it all night once (about 8 hours) to shut down, and it didn't. I've even reinstalled windows, and it is still giving me the same problem. It works initially, but as I install more software and drivers, it takes a little longer each time, until it stops working all together. At first it worked when I shut it down from the start menu, but didn't when ever a program shut it down (I don't understand why). I've tried shutting down from the command prompt, using various different combinations of switches, and that didn't work either.
The only difference in software between my old hard drive configuration and this one is that I'm running the Catalyst 5.8 drivers as opposed to 5.7. But I have a feeling, if that was the problem it would be all over the net.
No aspects of this problem seem to make any sense at all. The primary array does seem to be a little flakey, if I don't run the SATA cables just right it will error on boot. When I get back to school, I'm going to buy some new, (and much shorter) SATA cables, and I'll see if that has any effect on the problem.
The only difference in software between my old hard drive configuration and this one is that I'm running the Catalyst 5.8 drivers as opposed to 5.7. But I have a feeling, if that was the problem it would be all over the net.
No aspects of this problem seem to make any sense at all. The primary array does seem to be a little flakey, if I don't run the SATA cables just right it will error on boot. When I get back to school, I'm going to buy some new, (and much shorter) SATA cables, and I'll see if that has any effect on the problem.
houssam_ballout
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if there are so many processes running,then they will create a problem that willn't enable u to shutdown ur pc,
I have faced that problem and used to kill all the processes running and it also takes time to make this.
I have faced that problem and used to kill all the processes running and it also takes time to make this.
Geoff
VIP Member
how many processes are running? and how much available ram do you have before you shut it down? And your hard drive configuration looks a little weird, did u try installing it on just 1 or 2 of your 80gb drives and see what happens?
Also, is there any other problems other then not turning off? if not then you might as well just hold the power button in for 5 seconds and it will shut off.
Also, is there any other problems other then not turning off? if not then you might as well just hold the power button in for 5 seconds and it will shut off.
right_brainer
New Member
here's a suggestion. this step requires registry editing, do it at your on risk.
Go to HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Set AutoEndTasks to 1
Set HungAppTimeout 1000
Set WaitToKillAppTimeout to 2000
if the DWORD value HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout aren't there, create it.
Go to HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Set AutoEndTasks to 1
Set HungAppTimeout 1000
Set WaitToKillAppTimeout to 2000
if the DWORD value HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout aren't there, create it.
In response to IPXP, There is no option under power management labled APM.
In response to houssam_ballout, at this exact moment, I have 65 processes running
In response to geoff5093, I've got 1 GB of RAM. My hard drive configuration is set up as 2x 160 GB RAID 0 arrays. I've got Windows XP installed on the primary array. When I want the computer off, I've been holding down the power button, but then it won't automatically start up at 7:00 am, like I have it programed to.
In response to right_brainer, I'll get back to you after I give that a try, but after looking at the registry, HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout are REG_SZ values. I've changed the AutoEndTasks from 0 to 1, but I need to get to class so I can't see if that worked yet.
In response to houssam_ballout, at this exact moment, I have 65 processes running
In response to geoff5093, I've got 1 GB of RAM. My hard drive configuration is set up as 2x 160 GB RAID 0 arrays. I've got Windows XP installed on the primary array. When I want the computer off, I've been holding down the power button, but then it won't automatically start up at 7:00 am, like I have it programed to.
In response to right_brainer, I'll get back to you after I give that a try, but after looking at the registry, HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout are REG_SZ values. I've changed the AutoEndTasks from 0 to 1, but I need to get to class so I can't see if that worked yet.
Byteman
Malware Destroyer
In taskmanager, Processes tab, click the CPU column header twice, then try and shut down. Watch which processes are being processed the most, see if it hangs on one certain process.
If it's a hardware issue, you may want to run a DFT scan on each of your drives , and a memtest scan on you memory (11 passes, will take a while). other than that... maybe someone else has some idea.
If it's a hardware issue, you may want to run a DFT scan on each of your drives , and a memtest scan on you memory (11 passes, will take a while). other than that... maybe someone else has some idea.