More Windows XP shutdown problems?

[TrollMan]

Just got new XP machine (specs at bottom of post) and having some shutdown issues. I did a search on here, but nothing seemed to answer the specific problem I have

Basically, half the time shutting down is fine, if somewhat slow (only slow once it is on the "Windows is shutting down" screen), the other half of the time it hangs there! I am not sure what is happening exactly because sometimes if I wait while it is hanging I can hear the hard discs spinning down and shutting off, but it stubbornly still sits on the same screen. Is there anything I can do?

Specs:

Athlon XP 1900+
512MB DDR RAM
Asus A7N-266E motherboard (drivers dated 22/1/02)
Creative Geforce3 Ti200 (27.30 detonators)
Philips DVCDRW210 Combo drive
Panasonic SR-8587 DVD Drive
61.5Gb 7200rpm IBM HDD
15.2Gb 5400 IBM HDD
Realmagic Hollywood Plus (2.3 drivers)
WinXP home
DirectX 8.1

Can anyone help please?

 

[bacillus]

can only suggest you try troubleshooting using this!

 

[MetroRider]

as noted in the link which bacillus provided, i would suspect that it has to do with your "Nvidia Driver Helper service." For me, that has solved my shutdown problems 99% of the time, and made my WinXP machines shut down MUCH faster.

i hope that this is your problem and thus would be solved. if you have already disabled that Nvidia Driver Helper service and are still having shutdown problems, then i would suggest you to read through that whole article as it mentions quite a bit of good tips.

-David

 

[TrollMan]

bacillus and Metro Rider - thanks for your help

I stopped the NVidia service (is it safe to disable this completely through msconfig or will stopping it the once do the job?) and the PC now does shut down properly, although still slowly.

Then as I got in to work this morning, it dawned on me that I do actually have Roxio EasyCD 5 installed! Doh! When I get home I'll download the patch from that page and we'll see if that works

Thanks guys!

 

[bacillus]

let us know how you get on!

 

[TrollMan]

Well after some reinstalling of motherboard drivers which became more fiddly than I anticipated (I can't use the NVidia universal drivers as they are an .exe file and it keeps prompting for a disc for the audio elements), it's now shutting down every time, although it's still alot slower than my old 98SE machine or my XP Pro PC at work.

Course, now I can't disable VSync and have lost 1000+ 3DMarks, but that's for a different bit of the forum!

Thanks again for the help guys!