System will not shut down

Rossdh

Rossdh

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Hi folks, I have just done a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit onto 2 128Gb Crucial M4s in RAID0, rest of spec is in my sig. I have no other drives connected yet. The system runs fine but I cannot get it to shut down. I go to start, and select Shut Down but it just restarts. I can't figure out whats going on... Any ideas?

Ross
 
Google "win 7 restarts when shut down" ;)

Edit: Not trying to be smart or anything. There is quite a bit of info available and I have no experience with the problem.
 
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Hi, if you have any usb devices plugged in try a shut down with them unplugged. My brother had this problem a while back and it turned out to be one of his USB devices, a hub or a keyboard/mouse dongle, I forget exactly what it was.
 
doyll said:
I know you didn't try turning it off before doing updates, but....

Did it shut off properly before updates?
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Yup

scet27 said:
Hi, if you have any usb devices plugged in try a shut down with them unplugged. My brother had this problem a while back and it turned out to be one of his USB devices, a hub or a keyboard/mouse dongle, I forget exactly what it was.
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I'll give it a shot
 
The initial install worked properly so has to be something attached or installed after... possibly even a driver for something already attached but no working with initial install.
 
sounds to me if it could be a short somewhere as said above take out all usb devices if not an external problem there might be a short on your board to might be a good idea to check that as well
 
Think I may just have found the culprit! I'm working my way though uninstalling each program/driver I have installed since the fresh install and have just reached the new nvidia beta drivers and it has shut down!
 
Found these quotes on another forum with the same problem,

"Turns out one of the PSU's motherboard connection cables were loose. Got it plugged in all the way and now everything works perfectly fine."

OR

(this guy has the same mobo as you)

"Managed to finally make a restore from earlier restore point. Had to F8 and go to repair mode.

It seems to shutdown for now. Something went south this month when updating software.

Ok, after some more testing, it seems like the issues is Nvidia 304.48 Beta drivers.

I don't what causes them to conflict with my HW / Software, but they seem to be the issue."

My next step would be to try a system restore, back to before the updates were installed, check if the auto-restarts still persist, but if you are using those Nvidia beta drivers that's a good place to start.
 
Just reverted back to the latest WHQL drivers and all is good! Apart from my brain which feels like its been in a blender....

Cheers guys
 
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