System hanging on shutdown??

[Andy A]

My PC is hanging on shutdown or restart on the "Your system is shutting down" page, any thoughts people, i've changed a few things but nothing that should affect that

 

[UncleGrumpy]

I had something similar, it was being caused by a Sound Blaster PCI 512 sound card clashing with xp, doesn't do it any more though, it met a violent death courtesy of a 12 bore

 

[Andy A]

LOL, my PC is s**t hot, just doing a bit of general maintenance and now the bugger doesn't shut down!!

 

[Brasseye]

can you system restore to before you Bugg@red it up ?

 

[Andy A]

not really, not installing anything. moved the page file, turned off all unnescesary things in bios, cleaned it out, glued the power switch and door back on.

 

[ollie]

i had same prob tweakin my comp. I found it was due to me turning on "clear page file on shutdown" (or something simular).

as soon as i turned that off it worked

 

[Andy A]

You know where abouts that is in the menu's? I'm more hardware inclined than software!!

 

[ollie]

erm i do it through registry gimme a min and ill get you the entry you need to edit

 

[ollie]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

ClearPageFileAtShutdown

Value: 0

 

[Andy A]

Sorry, I am entering this where??

Is it regedit or is that totally wrong??

 

[ollie]

yeah regedit

 

[Andy A]

Already at 0, doh, any other suggestions, thanks though

 

[ollie]

ignore that... 2 mins..

 

[Andy A]

aha, I was fiddling about with services, just wait for this defragment to finish thwen i'll try, then report back, thanks

 

[ollie]

right, i had a look on google, some people say it could be a usb device, so could try unplugging them all, then plug one in, try shut down, if it works, plug the next one in, then shutdown etc. until you find the one that causes problems..

someone else said
ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... i had a quick look on the net and people have said go in msconfig and disable each service one by one, until it shutdowns properly.


someone else said, disable all services, then enable half of them, then if you still have the same problem, disable that half, and enable them 1 or 2 at a time until you find the service that is causing it to hang.


other people have said it happens when you use virtual desktops...


could also try disabling "fast shutdown" if you have it enabled atm


but looks like theres loads of things that cause it


ps. how long has it been doing this? and what have you installed just before it started, software or hardware drivers etc.

 

[ollie]

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

had a *quick* scan over bits of that, mite be worth a read!