Vista shutdown problems

petemyster · 10 Feb 2009 at 00:09

hey, all of a sudden my 64bit vista Ultimate computer won't shutdown on me. It willd just stay on the "windows is shutting down" forever.

I've tried uninstalling/undoing all software, hardware and drivers that I put on within the past 5 days (did a system restore to a working restore point and uninstalling alll the software I had put on it since).

Alas its still not shutting down. Any way I can tell what's stopping it from shutting down? Or do you guys have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

spitzoid · 10 Feb 2009 at 01:08

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70567-shutdown.html

reflux · 10 Feb 2009 at 01:13

How long have you left it? A couple of times my PC has taken about 15 minutes to shut down. No idea why.

petemyster · 10 Feb 2009 at 11:56

reflux said:
How long have you left it? A couple of times my PC has taken about 15 minutes to shut down. No idea why.

when i do leave it, it BSOD's

I tried this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943412 and it says the update doesn't apply to my system (i tried both files just in case).

Having a look in the event viewer, it says steam and CCC are causing it shutdown slowly. But I never ran steam in the 1st place, and CCC has never given me problems before

reflux · 10 Feb 2009 at 12:00

Yeah, reinstall Steam, and uninstall the ATi drivers, DriverSweep 'em, and then install 'em again. ATi drivers were causing me a BSOD on hibernate before.

petemyster · 10 Feb 2009 at 12:05

reflux said:
Yeah, reinstall Steam, and uninstall the ATi drivers, DriverSweep 'em, and then install 'em again. ATi drivers were causing me a BSOD on hibernate before.

*cold shudder*

have had very bad experiences with DriverSweeper, so will use it as a last resort, will uninstall ATI drivers using control panel and will submit a steam support ticket. For a temporary fix, i changed the "waittokill" in the registery to 1000.