Strange Windows XP shut down crash

[NapalmKing]

I was wondering if anyone could shed some light to this bizarre problem I have.

In my net computer, windows xp sometimes hangs on the "login out/saving changes" screen when shutting down. This happens only occasionally, as most of the times it simply shuts down normally. It doesn?t give me any error message. It simply hangs and there is no HDD activity. Some times the OS also hangs on the automatic login start, but that is very rare. All my other machines running XP work haven?t got this problem. The mentioned rig is an ASUS P4S533 with a non-clocked P4 1.8 and 256MB on RAM.

What could be causing this?

 

[Poontos]

Originally posted by: NapalmKing
I was wondering if anyone could shed some light to this bizarre problem I have.

In my net computer, windows xp sometimes hangs on the "login out/saving changes" screen when shutting down. This happens only occasionally, as most of the times it simply shuts down normally. It doesn?t give me any error message. It simply hangs and there is no HDD activity. Some times the OS also hangs on the automatic login start, but that is very rare. All my other machines running XP work haven?t got this problem. The mentioned rig is an ASUS P4S533 with a non-clocked P4 1.8 and 256MB on RAM.

What could be causing this?

Missing any WindowsUpdates and/or motherboard BIOS updates?

 

[kart8724]

Maybe you did a tweak on it and it screwed around with the shutdown process.

 

[NapalmKing]

Nope, no tweaks or any kind of update. I?ve installed this OS five months ago and since that time the only thing I installed in that rig was ACDSee 5.0 and the Macromedia Flash 6/MX player for Netscape. Besides this problem only arose a month ago. It run completely bug free since install.

 

[skyking]

I do not mean to sound like a broken record, but run memtest86🙂