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Thread ID: 78854	2007-04-30 10:00:00	Problem with Vista Hibernating/Shutting down.	JohnstonDJ (12197)	Press F1

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545686	2007-04-30 10:00:00	Just a wee problem on my girlfriends computer thats a little annoying, and looking for a solution. Her system is a Vista Home Premium system, which used to hibernate and shut down perfectly fine. (I moved it to properly shut down when I click the shutdown button, & to hibernate when I click the button on the keyboard). However it has stopped both shutting down and hibernating. When it tries to hibernate the screen turns itself off, but the computer doesn't actually turn off and sometimes turns itself straight back on, and sometimes needs a hard reset to actually be useful. Shutdown does the same thing. I've closed all unneccesary programs (going to a barebone system) and It still won't shut down. It will shut down from safemode. It's getting extremely annoying as the only way to turn it off is to pull it from the power and I'm assuming that really shouldn't be done. Any help would be much obliged.	JohnstonDJ (12197)
545687	2007-04-30 10:28:00	Welcome to Press F1 JohnstonDJ	radium (8645)
545688	2007-04-30 10:47:00	Welcome to Press F1 JohnstonDJ Thanks. Been lurking in this forum for a while, but when this problem popped up I thought it a good enough excuse to signup.	JohnstonDJ (12197)
545689	2007-04-30 10:57:00	I take it the videocard drivers are installed, if it doesnt shut down properly?? Could be a setting in the BIOS too. That needs changing. Or if both dont work just by using the keyboard, maybe the drivers for the kb need updating? It looks like both of these probs are common in Vista, in google and yahoo.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
545690	2007-04-30 10:57:00	You should not assume that a desktop system will always support standby and hibernation. With everything in perfect agreement in terms of drivers and hardware and installed software, it can work. If it does work, it is fine. The modes are designed more for laptop hardware, out of the last ~14 PC systems I have had, only 3 were reliable following hibernation or standby. But the status quo where it works never exists for long as software is added, hardware is added and programs/windows are updated. I have read the advice a few years ago from a major PC maker to the extent that it was supported by them in laptop hardware only. In your case it appears to be driver incompatability (as it works in safe mode).	godfather (25)
545691	2007-04-30 11:03:00	You should not assume that a desktop system will always support standby and hibernation. With everything in perfect agreement in terms of drivers and hardware and installed software, it can work. If it does work, it is fine. The modes are designed more for laptop hardware, out of the last ~14 PC systems I have had, only 3 were reliable following hibernation or standby. The system used to hibernate perfectly. However randomly about a week ago it stopped doing it. The whole lack of hibernation thing doesn't worry me however, but it won't shut down either. (Which is far more annoying :badpc: ). The shutdown is the main thing I wanna fix. But the status quo where it works never exists for long as software is added, hardware is added and programs/windows are updated. I have read the advice a few years ago from a major PC maker to the extent that it was supported by them in laptop hardware only. In your case it appears to be driver incompatability (as it works in safe mode). I haven't installed any new drivers recently, and neither has windows update (based on pulling up the last three weeks of update logs). I have installed a few video conversion programs for converting things to DVD/SVCD but I've made sure those programs have been terminated before I've tried to shut down to make sure they aren't the culprit.	JohnstonDJ (12197)
545692	2007-04-30 11:08:00	Whatever u do NEVER get drivers from the Windowsupdate site, and install them. You would have to go there to check, I dont think it gives u drivers thru Automatic updates. If whatever was going before u went here, it'll definitely wont work after you install drivers from here. Get the drivers from the manufacturer's site.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
545693	2007-04-30 12:22:00	Whatever u do NEVER get drivers from the Windowsupdate site, and install them . You would have to go there to check, I dont think it gives u drivers thru Automatic updates . If whatever was going before u went here, it'll definitely wont work after you install drivers from here . Get the drivers from the manufacturer's site . I'll give that a go . It was before the time this started happening, but it's downloaded nVidia drivers from Windows Update . I'll roll them back, and install ones from the website . However I'm not there at the moment, so I won't report back till tomorrow . :p	JohnstonDJ (12197)
545694	2007-04-30 15:02:00	Why not just do a system restore to an earlier point in time when it did all work? The software you have loaded may have added TSR components that do not unload, or are run as a service on startup, shagging the shutdowns process.	godfather (25)
545695	2007-05-01 03:30:00	Why not just do a system restore to an earlier point in time when it did all work? The software you have loaded may have added TSR components that do not unload, or are run as a service on startup, shagging the shutdowns process. That worked perfectly. I can't believe I didnt think to roll back to the latest working date. Thank you, but I know feel like a complete idiot. :p	JohnstonDJ (12197)
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