PC won't turn off ?

Alfonso_Skinarelli

Have a look at this Windows Shutdown Troubleshoot.

Also, to be a little more specific about a suggestion touched upon briefly above, go to Start > Run and type eventvwr to open the Event Viewer.

Look in the Application and System logs for errors (signified by a red circle with a white cross).

Double-click each of these error symbols to reveal more information.

You should find an Event ID number and Source information.

Check out these Event ID errors and related Source here.

MercilessKiller

Anyone got any advice for my particular one? Its obvious the hard drive is shut down but the PSU is still making all the fans go round.. lol

Have i bodged the mobo?

scaldyflash

Mr_Vincent wrote:

Scaldyflash,
What operating system are you running?

Do you know what program you installed recently?

Do you have anti-virus programs.

This problem can be overcome, exactly how is the patient question.
Either you've been hacked into or you did something wrong such as unintentionally delete a critical operating system file or folder.

Hmmm,
could be worth your while going to your internet explorer settings and deleting all your histories, cookies and contents of passwords.

Also, giving your hard-drive a clean out of any clutter - you know disk clean-up under properties of your C drive if this is your main thing.

Let us all know if this works.

Thanks for the myriad answers they have been very helpful.
To answer some of the questions posed;

I have Windows XP with SP2, regularly defrag (at least once a week)
Run CC Cleaner once a week.
Run AVG free with automatic updates and always on.
Run Zonealarm always on.
I operate Firefox with automatic deletion of history, cookies etc.

As far as troubleshooting goes, I haven't able to use the Windows troubleshoot facility since I installed SP2 or do a system restore since then either !

I have done the eventvwr and it came up with loads of 'red' errors 4609 being prominent amongst them particularly recently and 7000.

I must add that sometimes the PC does shut down OK probably 80% of the time it hangs !

scalyflash

Mr_Vincent

MercilessKiller wrote:

Anyone got any advice for my particular one? Its obvious the hard drive is shut down but the PSU is still making all the fans go round.. lol

Have i bodged the mobo?

Sounds like a hardware problem to me if your pc runs and shuts down perfectly well.

scaldyflash wrote:

Run CC Cleaner once a week.
Run AVG free with automatic updates and always on.
Run Zonealarm always on.
I operate Firefox with automatic deletion of history, cookies etc.

I must add that sometimes the PC does shut down OK probably 80% of the time it hangs !

scalyflash

Stop using CC Cleaner on such a regular basis.
It's a registry editor that will pick up some good stuff and mistakenly mark it as bad.
I tried such a thing and what you describe almost happened to me :cool:
Once every two months or so is best I recommend.
I personally have stopped using such things.
Adaware, Spybot and Windows Firewall, tried and tested through experience, are good enough.
Hope you are not using two firewalls.
Methinks you have a good pc there.

Rex_Mundi

Mr_Vincent wrote:

Stop using CC Cleaner on such a regular basis.
It's a registry editor that will pick up some good stuff and mistakenly mark it as bad.
I tried such a thing and what you describe almost happened to me :cool:
Once every two months or so is best I recommend.

I use CCleaner daily (several times) to keep all temp/history/assorted bits clear. I've never once seen it cause a problem. I've been doing for longer than I can remember.

It's not a registry editor as such. It removes unused and old registry entries. If an entry is in use, it wont delete it.