shutdown problems

When I try to enter sleep mode the screen goes blank, the power light stays on solid for several minutes, then the welcome/sign on screen comes back on. If I sign on and then hit sleep again it works correctly - screen goes blank and power light flashing. Similar thing happens with shutdown -...

I'm new to the forum and am not an IT guru.... just a senior that needs to have a working PC for my consulting work and hobbies. I built this PC back in 2014 with quality components that hopefully would last for many years. It has an SSD drive for windows 10 Home OS and program files along with...

Exactly what the titles says. I started to notice a change with the clock every now and then. I finally concluded that the clock does not change during sleep, restart, or shutdown. My computer goes to sleep often, and when it wakes up from sleep, the time is the same as when it was prior to...

Hey there, Recently I've been having problems after waking my laptop up from sleep -- I think it tries to shut down instead, because upon waking up it sometimes gives me the "Waiting for programs to close" screen, which I can then press cancel and continue using it normally. This causes a...

I have been having an on-going issue for some time with my external WD My Book. There are times when it is not being recognized by Windows 7(pro). It has three interface options (fire wire, esata, and USB). I have tried all three at one time or another, finally settling on the eSATA interface...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, We recently upgraded our home computer, a Dell Latitude E6500, from Windows XP to Windows 7. Everything is working fine except for the installation of our printer, an HP Officejet 6310. I downloaded the full feature software and drivers and successfully installed them, even printed a...

Recently built new PC. Installed Windows 7 RC build 7100 64bit. Issue 1: Sometimes boot takes 10+ minutes. Sometimes won't boot past "Windows is Starting Up" screen. Sometimes boots in under 30 seconds. Issue 2: Sometimes takes 10+ minutes to shut down. Sometimes Won't shut down past...

Here's a list of problems I'm having with the new W7 RC 64 bit & IE 8 ........ 1. CNN website won't show videos, works fine with Firefox. 2. CBS website video's won't enlarge to full screen, works fine with Firefox. 3. AVG wouldn't set up for me. Set up package wouldn't open up. 4. Avast...

I decided to make a new post about this, since I know I'm not the only one on this forum with M-Audio sound cards. When I updated W7 to a new build (7048 and newer), I found that I was having compatibility issues. I could get the audio to work perfect, but the computer would hang on the...

hi, just installed windows 7(64bit), clean installation i have this weird problem, the msi installer seems to hang every time i try installing, java runtime enviroment and office 2003. after a while i give up and close the proccess and end up restarting coz any other app gets stuck. another...

Since installing Windows 7 Beta everytime i log off, switch user, shut down, startup, or restart I get the black screen asking me if id like to start windows normally, or in safe mode. I always hit enter to start normally and it does what i had requested. This screen also appears before my pc...