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Shut Down - Display screen is off but computer still running

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Justforcause

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Hey all,

when I turned off my computer yesterday, it took unusually long for the pc to turn off. Display was already black but the pc was still running and after aprox. 30 seconds it turned off.
Before that, the PC went off almost immediatelly after I pressed turn off. No windows updates were going on in the background. What may be the cause?

The setup:
CPU Intel Core i5-6500
MB MSI B150M NIGHT ELF
Case SilentiumPC Gladius M45W
PSU CORSAIR RMx Series RM550x
HDD SSD Samsung 850 EVO, 2.5"
COOLER SilentiumPC Spartan 3 LT HE1012
RAM CRUCIAL 2x8GB DDR4 2133MHz
VGA nV GIGABYTE GV-N960WF2OC-4GD
 
It's weird though, as I tried twice yesterday and this morning and it did the exact same. The thing is doing "something". What might be the omething that causes it to shut down after such a long time? Virus, malware, temporary files?
 
Justforcause said:
It's weird though, as I tried twice yesterday and this morning and it did the exact same. The thing is doing "something". What might be the omething that causes it to shut down after such a long time? Virus, malware, temporary files?
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The same thing happened to my son's computer after Windows Update (Windows 10).

You can go to: Control Panel---System and Security---Review your computer's status and resolve issues---Maintenance---View Reliability history

That should give you a map of when updates were installed and when that issue started.
 
Its really not an issue. It's just weird that it takes so long after just a week of having the computer. If it's not problematic in any sort of way that it takes longer I won't care. But if on the other hand it's something I should be concerned of as it's damaging the PC then I have to deal with it.
 
What OS? It seems like Windows 10 takes a bit longer since the latest update, but I haven't clocked it too see if that is the case.
 
A lot of computers do that. It could be waiting for the HDD to spin down, some irrelevant power feature kicking in, suspending the system to RAM etc...

Lots of possibilities, but its nothing to be concerned about.
 
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