Power staying on after shutdown

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Good evening guys n gals.

I recently upgraded the bios on my P8P67 m pro and at roughly the same time went from an Antec truepower to an Evga 650w Gold. After trying to shutdown my PC recently I noticed that although my screen shuts down, my gfx card and case fans all stay on. I have tried reading up on it and I can find people who say it can be a bugged bios or faulty psu etc. Have any of you ever experienced a problem like this or can offer me any advice?

If it helps I also upgraded my gfx card to a 970 too.

Thnx in advance

Gen
 
I havent had the problem myself, i would just work my way back though the upgrades you made until you hopefully find the problem. If you upgraded the GPU last, just unplug it and run from the onboard GPU for now, then try sticking your old Bios back on, old PSU etc until you find whats triggered it.

It might just be a windows problem, maybe its going into hibernation instead of powering down.
 
Thanks BluD and sorry for the late reply

I tried replacing my cpu and gpu but the problem is still there. When I tell windows to shutdown it goes through it's normal motions and turns off the mouse, keyboard and monitor but leaves the case and cpu fans running. I don't have my pc set to go into sleep or hibernate either. I am guessing it's probably bios related although my power settings on my P8P67 M PRO are very limited. Only settings for power I can see are Wake on PS2, PCI etc and they are all disabled.

If I tell the PC to restart in windows it goes through a full shutdown and restart including shutting the fans etc down. If I hold the power button down it does perform a shutdown so the problem seems to lie in when the instruction comes via windows
 
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anyway to flash back to previous bios? or did you need latest bios to get your 970 working?

tested without gpu? see if it shuts down fully then

unplugged all usb devices except mouse,see if any of those are preventing shutdown
 
Thnx Wazza

I could try without a gpu but this board doesn't have any on board gfx so I would need to research how to do it. I'll dig out my old basic keyboard and mouse and try those and post back.
 
Tried putting my old 7870 in again this morning but the problem is still there.

This problem seems to exist on a lot of the Asus boards and a few people have said that clearing CMOS sorted it so I may have to do that. I'm a bit scared I won't be able to get the bios back to how it is now. I bought the mobo as part of an Overclockers bundle from OcUK.

Thanks for the help guys
 
Evening guys

Just thought I would pop back on to let you know that it's sorted now. I cleared the cmos this afternoon and it sorted the problem. I was a bit scared but it didn't change any of my settings but was successful in clearing the bug.

Thanks to all those that took the time to try and help me and I hope this helps someone else.

Keep up the good work and Happy New Year to you all.

Gen
 
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