Fans running after shutdown?

HuckleberryWill · 4 Jan 2013 at 09:52

Hello,

Basically, I noticed yesterday that when I shutdown my PC by going to the charms bar (windows 8), settings, power, shutdown, that the screen would almost instantly go black and the fans would continue to run, and the Hard Drive LED would flicker. Also, the power LED was on. It had the appearance of being on, with the mouse and keyboard LED's also being on. Pressing buttons on the keyboard or mouse will not wake it up.

I thought that it could be a hardware issue, so I booted onto my Ubuntu Live CD and tried to shutdown from there - it worked.

I then realized that usually I use a Rainmeter skin to shutdown, I have one that has all sorts of power options. I booted back into Windows 8, used the skin to shutdown, and it worked perfectly.

I have also checked in the BIOS for any options, but saw none that would affect this.

Any ideas?

Antar Bolaeisk · 4 Jan 2013 at 09:55

Sounds like the computer is going to sleep rather than shutting down and you need to modify the sleep settings of the computer in the bios to stop the fans and turn off the LEDs when in sleep mode.

zakblood · 4 Jan 2013 at 09:56

use the proper shut down and no skins or extra etc would help

trouble is when altering anything from standard, is you get some errors sometimes.

seems what ever you have put on / installed isn't doing what it should do

default works fine in windows to close it, not put it in sleep mode or any other, so for me you answered your own post im sorry to say, have no idea with the program you used, sorry

Glaucus · 4 Jan 2013 at 09:57

Some computers just don't seem to like the new "shut down" which is kind of a deep hibernate.

From start screen type in power, then click change what the power button does.
You can then select the conventional shutdown option. But this will slow down boot up times.

HuckleberryWill · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:06

zakblood said:
use the proper shut down and no skins or extra etc would help

trouble is when altering anything from standard, is you get some errors sometimes.

seems what ever you have put on / installed isn't doing what it should do

default works fine in windows to close it, not put it in sleep mode or any other, so for me you answered your own post im sorry to say, have no idea with the program you used, sorry

This: http://rainmeter.net/cms/

With a nice skin (Widget) and the shutdown button is basically a shortcut to "shutdown /s /t 0".

Rainmeter works fine, when its off the problem still occurs, even on the login screen.

zakblood · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:15

there are known m/b issues with windows 8 still, thats why i haven't taken the gamble as yet and won't until sp1 like i did with xp and also win 7

h88p://oddballupdate.com/2012/11/solving-windows-8-sleep-issues/

type "sleep and off issues with windows 8?"
into google and read any of the 61000 pages saying the same thing

seem your not alone im sorry to say, it did work for me when i installed it, still on old pc as i keep playing with it, but it seems to be a hard ware issue

the link has one solution, but tbh there's many many more to try if that doesn't work for you, try it and lets see if it does, if it doesn't i'll find another

first full system spec m/b make model etc would help narrow it down to others having same issue etc for search

HuckleberryWill · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:21

Glaucus said:
Some computers just don't seem to like the new "shut down" which is kind of a deep hibernate.

From start screen type in power, then click change what the power button does.
You can then select the conventional shutdown option. But this will slow down boot up times.

Thank you. Now shutdowns properly.

zakblood said:
there are known m/b issues with windows 8 still, thats why i haven't taken the gamble as yet and won't until sp1 like i did with xp and also win 7

h88p://oddballupdate.com/2012/11/solving-windows-8-sleep-issues/

type "sleep and off issues with windows 8?"
into google and read any of the 61000 pages saying the same thing

seem your not alone im sorry to say, it did work for me when i installed it, still on old pc as i keep playing with it, but it seems to be a hard ware issue

the link has one solution, but tbh there's many many more to try if that doesn't work for you, try it and lets see if it does, if it doesn't i'll find another

first full system spec m/b make model etc would help narrow it down to others having same issue etc for search

Kinda strange, my PC is brand new, built it a couple weeks ago. New parts and all.

MB - Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 - Claims to be "Windows 8 Compatible"
CPU - AMD FX-8350
PSU - Antec True Power New Continous 750W Modular Power Supply
Case - HAF X
GPU - AMD Radeon HD 7850
RAM - GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

zakblood · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:41

offer the next few weeks and months, loads of updated drivers and bios updates for your stuff will be released and windows 8 updates, most will get fixed any time soon as they are still playing with it tbh and will be for a long time yet

same happened with xp and also win 7, win 8 will be no different

HuckleberryWill · 4 Jan 2013 at 10:42

zakblood said:
offer the next few weeks and months, loads of updated drivers and bios updates for your stuff will be released and windows 8 updates, most will get fixed any time soon as they are still playing with it tbh and will be for a long time yet

same happened with xp and also win 7, win 8 will be no different

Ok, thanks. Guess thats what you get with just-released stuff.