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547438 2007-05-05 09:50:00 I am having trouble shutting down my laptop... around 50% of the time the screen remains on, with only the mouse arrow showing, when I shut it down. The fan continues to cool the unit, and battery will drain if not plugged in. I have to hold the power-on button down for a few seconds to completely turn it off. It starts up again as normal, without any problems.

I am running XP professional on a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Any ideas why it may have started to do this... Is is a symptom of something more major going to happen to PC?

Thank you for any help!
nahjeewah (12219)
547439 2007-05-05 11:04:00 It is usually a sign of a driver halting the process as it unloads (or fails to unload in your case).

Start by reloading all the drivers from the Toshiba website.

If the beginning of the problem coincided with installing some software or plug-in card then uninstall/remove it.
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