shutdown issues

My Windows 7 desktop will not enter automatic or manual sleep. In both cases the computer does an "unsuccessful shutdown". I have to cycle power to reboot the computer. Restart and Shutdown work normally. I have enabled automatic sleep with both Power Options, powercfg, and BIOS. powercfg...

Hi, I have been having this problem for the past 2 months now where my computer would not start after complete shutdown, but if i start the computer press F8 and boot in safe mode it boots ok and if i restart it, the computer starts back fine. I have tried diagnostic tests on my hardware...

Hi all and thanks for letting me post, I just hope you can help me! I had my pc custom built and I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit myself on Sunday 6th Nov 2011. Since then I have had numerous BSOD incidents and consequest restarts with "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown"...

When I first experienced BSOD I didn't care much about it so I just ignored it. But when time passes by my computer is now experiencing BSOD twice a day, Freezes my computer and automatically shut down by itself. Please help me I am just a noob. Thank you. Link RemovedLink Removed Link Removed...

I recently purchased a new desktop and every time it attempts to shut down it hangs at the shuting down screen for about five minutes then goes to the BSOD. The message is a 0x0000009 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. This computer is less than a week old, nevertheless I went through and updated...

hey guys i really look forward to help me with this issue. i have made a setup for mikrotik server on a virtual machine so i need to keep my computer on all the time and that was fine for 4 or 5 days then i start to wake up every morning to see that my computer on and stopped on user login...

Can anyone please help me. I have a Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit operating system and I am experiencing unexpected shutdowns of the system. This tends to occur mainly when doing a virus check or doing a back up using some software called SyncBackSE. I have tried looking at the event log but...

My PC (ASUS N61JV) is misbehaving. It powered off unexpectedly. When I Switched it back on, only thing i could see was a Blue Screen. I ran all the required tests and am attaching the reports for your convenienceLink RemovedLink Removed. I am using x64 bit version of Windows 7. I am really...

There are as many potential solutions for interminable PC shutdowns as there are potential causes, so it's best to start simple before resorting to Registry tweaks and complex diagnostics. Originally posted at How To More...

I am having a big issue with my computer. I originally ran windows xp professional until i upgraded to adobe cs5 and needed to switch to windows 7.now that i have windows 7 my programs stop working constantly. if i'm working in photoshop on a large photo the screen will go blank and a bubble...

I've found that it's much better (in my case) to run without integration features enabled on an XP VM. When I have them enabled, the following happens: - Can't do Start->Shutdown (it's removed from the menu) - Sometimes hangs if you click the Close icon (and have it set to shutdown) - CPU...

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Boot & close down error HELP PLEASE I have uploaded a screen clip of the problem can any assist and direct me to where the problem is Link Removed

At least once a day I get a BSOD on my Dell 980 PC. I have Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit running on and Intel i7 with 16 GB RAM. My event log only show that the PC has recovered from an unexpected shutdown. I have looked at the Memory.dmp files with WinDbg and it looks like a USB device may be the...

hey, im having a problem with system crashing and then the inability to reboot with a manual reset. if i hold the power key to power off the system then i can boot back into windows. here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash. i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes...

What happened is kinda of long so I have simplified it but if you want to read the long roundabout version of what happened be my guest. Short: My computer has random shutdowns. The power cuts out completely, no BSOD, no dump file. In event viewer it says "Kernel-Power Event Id: 41". I have...

My system has been having a lot of problems today and, after a good two hours of trouble shooting, I finally narrowed the issue down to the Search Service, which must have gotten damaged or corrupted somehow. Here's the problems. 1. When the search service is running, IE8 and Word 2010...

Hello All, First time poster here, hopefully someone can help me out. I turned on my computer last night with the intention of using it and about 20 minutes after it was started we lost power. When power returned I restarted the computer, and immediately started getting error messages such as...

I have a problem with hibernate/sleep in windows 7. when i set pc to hibernate or sleep, the power turn off, but it does not resume. I press any key on keyboard, power does not come back on, then i push power button, power on and display not windows unexpected shutdown screen, choose safe...

Hi there I have just got a brand new laptop (MSI GX660R) delivered 1 week ago and literally from day one it has had random crashes. It is very strange though because the crashes only seem to happen when I am watching a video on tudou.com but not youtube. Basically after watching for about 10...