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All I can think of is: Go to Power Options in Control Panel. On the Advanced tab make sure "Shutdown" is selected for "When I press the power button..." option.

Fixed it ! Re-installed good old working XP Pro...

Hi, I revive this thread since I have the same problem with W7 Ultimate 64bits and a ASUS P5B-E. I have both software and hardware updates installed... Also played with Power options without success.

Yes, somethime it is the simplest things, but the button action says "shutdown"... Thanks, michel

I I checked Power Plan = Balanced. I see nothing that would prevent the computer to shutdown completly. Also I did not see how to disable Power Plans alltogether, I don't need it, it's a tower computer, not a laptop... :confused: I did not change anything in the BIOS since I "upgraded" from...

When I click Shutdown button on start menu, Windows shutsdown but leaves the computer running. Fresh install, updates installed, chipset drivers upto date. Never experienced this with WinXP on same computer... Check all other messages about same problem but no reply witsolution was...

Same problem here with clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits...

I also tried some proposed "solution" ( disabling USB or IEEE1394 is NOT a solution ) and no success. This is not a laptop, it is a regular tower PC ASUS P5B-E with all the hardware updates and Win7 updates installed. Windows 7 64 does shutdown but it will not shutdown the computer. The lights...