Vista not shutting down

I just reloaded my system yesterday. I have Vista Ultimate (upgraded from XP
Home). When I did my first round of updates, the computer updated and
restarted fine. Now, when I either shut down or restart Vista, the computer
freezes on Shutting down screen. I am then forced to do a hard shutdown and
restart.


My system is :
Compaq Presario SR1703WM
AMD Sempron 3200+ processor
2GB RAM
160GB WD IDE HDD(main); 160GB Samsung HDD (backup drive)
nVidia GeForce 7600LE graphics card (128MB onboard RAM, I think)
Hauppage WinTV Go+ TV tuner card

Is there hard drive activity when the machine is freezing?
Have you checked your application logs and error logs to see if there
is a conflict or other error.
Check your performance logs.
As a diagnostic check boot in safe mode then try and close down.
After updating closing down a system may take a while just after the
update while the computer applies the update.
The reason for this is because some of the services may have to be
stopped for the update to take place.
Have you tried to restore to before the update?
Have you looked in device manager to see if an update has changed a
system driver that it should not. (Microsot Put out updates to gfx cards
and other devices that are better left to the manufacturer).

If this helps let us know on the forum.


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roy69

- Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Abit IP35 Pro
- 4 x 1GB OcUK PC2-6400 C5 800 MHZ Dual Channel
- Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
- CiBox TFT 22" Widescreen LCD Panel. 1680 x 1050
- Creative X-Fi 7.1 PCI-E
- Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
- Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
- Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU

The only issue I saw in the error log was one entry that said that one PCI
card had not been assigned an IRQ (I think it said by the BIOS).

"roy69" wrote:

>
> Is there hard drive activity when the machine is freezing?
> Have you checked your application logs and error logs to see if there
> is a conflict or other error.
> Check your performance logs.
> As a diagnostic check boot in safe mode then try and close down.
> After updating closing down a system may take a while just after the
> update while the computer applies the update.
> The reason for this is because some of the services may have to be
> stopped for the update to take place.
> Have you tried to restore to before the update?
> Have you looked in device manager to see if an update has changed a
> system driver that it should not. (Microsot Put out updates to gfx cards
> and other devices that are better left to the manufacturer).
>
> If this helps let us know on the forum.
>
>
> --
> roy69
>
> - Core 2 Quad Q6600
> - Abit IP35 Pro
> - 4 x 1GB OcUK PC2-6400 C5 800 MHZ Dual Channel
> - Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
> - CiBox TFT 22" Widescreen LCD Panel. 1680 x 1050
> - Creative X-Fi 7.1 PCI-E
> - Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
> - Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
> - Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
>

This may be silly...b ut try waiting lonnnnng time...like 10 minutes.

"Bob" <> wrote in message
news:489FB055-17E4-434A-A195-...
> The only issue I saw in the error log was one entry that said that one PCI
> card had not been assigned an IRQ (I think it said by the BIOS).
>
> "roy69" wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there hard drive activity when the machine is freezing?
>> Have you checked your application logs and error logs to see if there
>> is a conflict or other error.
>> Check your performance logs.
>> As a diagnostic check boot in safe mode then try and close down.
>> After updating closing down a system may take a while just after the
>> update while the computer applies the update.
>> The reason for this is because some of the services may have to be
>> stopped for the update to take place.
>> Have you tried to restore to before the update?
>> Have you looked in device manager to see if an update has changed a
>> system driver that it should not. (Microsot Put out updates to gfx cards
>> and other devices that are better left to the manufacturer).
>>
>> If this helps let us know on the forum.
>>
>>
>> --
>> roy69
>>
>> - Core 2 Quad Q6600
>> - Abit IP35 Pro
>> - 4 x 1GB OcUK PC2-6400 C5 800 MHZ Dual Channel
>> - Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
>> - CiBox TFT 22" Widescreen LCD Panel. 1680 x 1050
>> - Creative X-Fi 7.1 PCI-E
>> - Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
>> - Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
>> - Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
>>