Powerdown issue

[fizzump04]

Hi all-

I've recently upgraded my system. Now that everything is installed and stable, i've got one thing that continues to annoy me. Sometimes the machine won't shut down. It gets past the Windows messages (saving settings, etc), until all i see is a blank blue screen and the cursor. And that's where it gets stuck. It'll sit there for a long period of time. The cursor still works, Windows itself seems to be done, but it won't power down. I have to turn off the computer manually.

To complicate things, it doesn't do this all the time. It seems to have a dependency on what software was running at the time, but i've not got enough info to pin it on any single thing. Typically, i run Trillian, Thunderbird, and Opera 9.1. I don't usually close those before shutting down the computer, but that wasn't a problem before i upgraded.

Anyone have any ideas what might cause this?

I'm running an Athlon X2 4200+ (oc'd to 2.7GHz) on an Epox MF570SLI with 2GB of Crucial memory, and a Sapphire X1900. WinXP SP2.

Thanks in advance!


-Fizz

 

[nineball9]

You may find some relevant info in your event log, though perhaps not if you have to power off the system. Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer.

A freebie from Microsoft called the User Profile Hive Cleanup may help. It's fast and easy to install assuming you have a legitimate copy of Windows. Microsoft UPHclean link.

You may have other hung apps too. Good luck!

 

[fizzump04]

Well, UPHClean didn't seem to do anything. I still get the same thing.

There doesn't seem to be anything in Event Viewer that points to the problem. There's the occasional error in Service Control Manager and Userenv, but they didn't occur at the time of shutdown.

Since it's gotten past the `saving your settings' screen, i would think XP is done, and the powerdown signal just isn't getting sent to the mainboard. But it does seem to depend on which and/or how many applications are running.

Any other ideas?

-Fizz

 

[Harvey]

I have a similar problem that just started a few weeks ago, but not exactly the same.

Since it started, when I go to shut down my system, it reboots, instead of turning off. If I let it reboot, it will then do a normal shut down. It looks like the UPH cleanup may help, but I'd appreciate any other info.

TIA for any info.