Recent content by scandib

I have news to report, some good, some bad. Not long after I reinstalled Vista, my shutdown/startup/hangup problems returned. I decided to reinstall Win 7, but that made no difference. I pulled everything but the graphics card and the C drive, but still no difference. So I figured it had to be...

Thanks, Mike. I agree, it has to be a hardware issue. It's been up and down for me since this problem started getting critical. To be sure it wasn't the system drive (I've always been using SATA), I bought and installed a new, 1 TB drive, and loaded Vista 64 on it. After days of the usual crap...

Thanks all. I'll try the ACPI fix, but I think it's either a hardware issue or maybe even a virus. I've had shutdown problems going all the way back to my original Vista install. I installed the Win 7 Beta in hopes of fixing that, and it did for a while, but eventually I had shutdown issues with...

Thanks for replying, I appreciate it! Actually, it's quite a long story, and I'm trying to get ready for a trip out of town tomorrow (and it's 1 AM now :) ), so I'm going to hold off on explaining in more detail until I have more time. Please bear with me, thanks! Probably be Thursday before I...

The Logging off or Shutting down screen stays there for hours unless I do a hard reboot. Suggestions? :(

Thanks much for your reply. Shortly after posting, I found a similar answer on another forum. And sure enough, it worked fine. This was indeed the problem. All is well. It's amazing to me that this has been around since XP days! Saul

I have two optical drives, a Sony CD-RW CRX320EE ATA CD-RW drive, and a Samsung (TSST) CDDVDW SH-223F DVD-RW drive. The Sony is a bit old, but the Samsung is brand-new. Both worked fine under Vista. Neither manufacturer supplies downloadable drivers for these, since they're plug and play, and...