gregrocker
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- Feb 8, 2009
After install of Win7 to an old Gateway 700LTD, it won't shut down and just restarts when clicking Shut Down, Sleep, Hibernate or using the Power Button to shut down. I have to do a hard shutdown at the point where it restarts.
This is an older machine which could not boot from disk, so I pulled out HD and used another PC to install Win7, but drivers were easily adjusted when I reinstalled HD and it is working well, even the ancient 64mb NVIDIA MX400 video card took it's XP driver.
All BIOS settings are returned to default, I tried troubleshooting various fixes got from Google, then decided to determine if it is a Win7 issue by installing another copy of Win7 on a second test partition, which also won't shutdown. Don't you think this eliminates the OS settings as the culprit?
If it isn't the OS and BIOS is set to defaults, then I am thinking Power Supply or CMOS battery failure. Any other ideas?
This is an older machine which could not boot from disk, so I pulled out HD and used another PC to install Win7, but drivers were easily adjusted when I reinstalled HD and it is working well, even the ancient 64mb NVIDIA MX400 video card took it's XP driver.
All BIOS settings are returned to default, I tried troubleshooting various fixes got from Google, then decided to determine if it is a Win7 issue by installing another copy of Win7 on a second test partition, which also won't shutdown. Don't you think this eliminates the OS settings as the culprit?
If it isn't the OS and BIOS is set to defaults, then I am thinking Power Supply or CMOS battery failure. Any other ideas?