Computer wont shut down completely

[ben johnson]

Whenever I try to shut down my computer, sometimes, it wont shut down completely. It will get through all of the windows messages: "saving settings", etc. Then it finishes, acts like its going to shut down, and never does. I then have to hold the power button down until it turns off.

Any ideas?

Could this be software or hardware?

 

[enyceexdanny]

i get the same issue, but it stalls on"windows is shutting down"
and this happens only if i played a game that session.

Seems hardware related because i just recently swapped out all my parts.

 

[ben johnson]

Yeah, the hardware in my sig is inaccurate. I just put together a new computer with the A8N32-SLI Deluxe, 150gb WD Raptor, Corsair 2500LL Pro, etc.

I'm not sure what the deal is, I hope it gets fixed because its annoying.

It also only happens to me when I do something with a lot of load on my computer. I just installed windows so I've been installing all of my programs, whenever I install a few it wont shut down. When I dont install anything or don't anything load intensive it shuts down fine.

 

[altec]

My old puter did that. I just hit the pwer button. Never hurt anything since it was already done doing what ever windows does before it shuts down.

 

[Axman]

I had this problem with the Avast! antivirus. I switched to Nod32 and away it went.

 

[Empyrean]

I believe this is because Windows is unable to end certain processes and get stucks in a loop attempting to close the process before continuing with shutdown. Why it is unable to 'kill' the process is what confuses me...

UNIX would never have let this happen

 

[cooter]

I have had my past computer hang on shutdown and i was pretty sure that it was a powersupply related problem. It was a nice antec 430 but it had way to much crap on it. when I took some of the HD's off it it would be ok.