Thread: pc wont turn off, or restart

Quote: Originally Posted by zomby22 hmmm not sure! if you havent overclock your machine then it could be something else causing this, probably mostly softwares. run UPHclean 1.6d,webroot spysweeper,bit defender or norton - once all clean if all doesnt fix the error, then I dont know, hope some of my suggestion works ;o) i have webroot spysweeper on my computer, and im running symantec client 10.0.2.200 and this has done it since i built my...

hmmm not sure! if you havent overclock your machine then it could be something else causing this, probably mostly softwares. run UPHclean 1.6d,webroot spysweeper,bit defender or norton - once all clean if all doesnt fix the error, then I dont know, hope some of my suggestion works ;o)

It could be a few things. Has this always happened? The header on the mobo could be defective, or the power supply could be defective, or it could be windows not shutting down but going into hibernation. First disable hibernation in the screen properties under screen saver/power/hibernate. Then confirm that the shortcut that your start button refers to is actually pointing to shutdown.exe. Better yet, make a new shortcut on your desktop for...

try removing symantec products i spent 3 days talking to them for them to finally tell me their programs do not support 64bit and on top could not say if i would be protected either i had huge probs with system works 2006 but im not sure your product will have the same issue but worth time to narrow it down my issue was the system using 50% of proc and locking up after a while

I'm pretty sure its to do with ACPI. Here's a respone I made this morning to someone else with the same kind of issue. "In device manager under computer it should either say ACPI Multiprocessor machine (P4's with HyperThreading or multicore CPU's) OR Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC. If not i'll give you instructions on how to change this. If its neither of them then thats probably why its...