Isit normal for windows 7 to spin up inactive drives on shutdown
I have set my power options to turn off drives after 20 mins which is fine but i dont understand why it spins them back up before shutdown is this normal and can it be changed.
This has just started recently, my computer tends to make a loud sound as though something is spinning incredibly fast. When I feel the top of my case when this happens, it is hotter. When feel the copper tubbing on my CPU fan, it's hotter. When it spins down, everything cools off to the touch. My CPU and PSU fans are both running, it is an older PC.
I recently bought a DIY computer package from Tigerdirect. I put all the parts together, making sure to handle the parts correctly. Once everything was hooked-up, hardware-wise, I tried to install Windows 7 off of a friend's USB drive. It almost worked, but it requested that I insert a disk into the drive, which I couldn't do.I bought a brand new Windows 7 OEM version. Computer still won't boot-up, even though BIOS screen shows that the optical drive is connected. After checking the boot order sequence several times, I figured that the driver must have something wrong with it, so I bought a cheap DVDROM. Both optical drives are made by LG (not sure if relevant) but neither work. In fact, neither one would even spin-up the disk. Message on screen reads: 'Reboot and Select proper boot device, or insert boot media into boot device and press any key.'
set up my parents brand new PC running Win 7 64 bit. Basically everything is fine except for 2 things which may be connected?1)Even though I connect to the internet no problem the little blue circle continues to spin in the taskbar as if it's trying to connect.2)I installed the latest version of firefox and that shows a banner along the top of the screen constantly saying something along the lines of updates are being downloaded.I have asimilair setup at home and have not come across this before.I've also installed AVG,Ccleaner and Comodo firewall.
I have a ASUS Laptop with Intel I3 processer and Windows 7 Home Premium. I recently had a forced shutdown during a Windows upgrade session. Ever since then the Boot and Shutdown times have increased to over 15 minutes. I have run the msconfig unticking all but the antivirus (Kaspersky) and it still takes >15 min to boot and Shutdown. Is there something I can do before I decide to reinstall Windows &. (I dont have a install disk.) The software came with the Computer and I have the OEM code (Bought at Best Buy)
I have two windows updates that keep failing. When i go to shutdown my computer I always have an update icon attached to the shutdown key. The download is always 1of1. Then when i reboot, the update icon is still there. I'm thinking since the two updates are failing, it has something to do with the 1of1 update not downloading properly. I went to windows update to check for new updates, and the only one is the two that keep failing. My computer just blue screened on shutdown today, winch got me thinking i really need to fix this.
Im not sure if this is in the right category, but I think it could be Windows 7 related.My Powersupply died the other day so I purchased a new one and all was fine, except when I shutdown it either freezes or carries on for what seems like forever.The only thing is that on bootup my DVD Drive and SSD have changed ports so my dvd drive is now device00 and my SSD001.
I just finished putting together my computer, installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bits. However, both of my hard drives (one SSD, one regular HDD) are showing up as external drives (plug-and-play). If I click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon, I could actually "eject" both of my hard drives.
am trying to do a backup of my Win 7 system drive (C, but the backup utility is saying that it must backup by non-system drives (E: and H, which happen to have "System Volume Information" folders on them. They are not system drives. E: is my main utilities drive and H: is my games drive.Somehow, Windows thinks they are system drives, when in reality they aren't.Any ideas on how to change them? When I go in to Disk Management, they are not showing as system drives. They are all partitions on the same hard drive, but there are other partitions not included in the backup.
my pc starts up then shut down keeps doing this anyone know what could be causing this on this motherboard i put everything back in my other motherbaord and its works fine just that board an asrock n68pv-gs pci-e slot doesnt work only the on boards work on it
ECS GF8100VM-M5 Socket AM2+ Motherboard Athlon 7750+ BE 2.7ghz 2GB ocz ddr800 brand new xfx hd 5670
i m having problem with my lapy since last 4-5 days.. i am unable to shut down my lapy..when i shut it down it takes too long to shut down & it shows shutting down screen....
whenever I shutdown my computer by going on "Start" then Shutdown (Windows 7), it shutdown normally (looks normally). Then when I start the computer again Windows says it has recovered from an unexpected shutdown (BSOD) and sometimes also ask for startup repair.
I'm having this problem. Often, when I press the shutdown button, computer runs on. There's no signal from graphics card, because monitor goes blank. But sometimes computer does shutdown (rarely).
i had constant problems with win7 hanging of the shutting down screen or just after.my system is clean of malware and i have modified some registry keys but some are not there (havent been created).how do i enter new keys without screwing up the registry or is there another method of doing this?
Im running on windows 7 professional, i5 cpu, 8gb ramcomputer is fine when i am using it, but when i leave it for long periods time such that it goes into sleep, it automatically shuts down, and when i turn it on again it says my computer did not shut downproperly and i get to chose whether to normal start up or go into safe mode
I tried to set a program to run on shutdown, but both solutions found in the Internet are for Win XP, so in Windows 7 they failed: placing shortcuts to Start Menu > Programs > Shutdown or using gpedit.msc (it's just not present, as soon as I can see). I also tried using the Task Scheduler but I don't know how to set the shutdown event
Whenever i insert a DVD into my DVD drive, my system gets shutdown and reboots.And after rebooting it shuts down again.Unless i eject the DVD, my PC wont come to normal state. In Short, When DVD Drive reads the DVD, system gets shutdown.
i am looking for a tool that will automatically shutdown my Windows 7 professional once the internet connection is interrupted.I am going online with a usb-umts-modem, which is using its own software.
How can I shut down the remote computer after the Remote Desktop connection was made? "On the computer from which you want to shut down the remote computer, open a command window ("cmd.exe" in the Search box). At the command prompt, type "shutdown /i"to display the Remote Shutdown dialog box. Where it says, "What do you want these computers to do?" select Shut down (or you can select Restart if you want it to restart). Type at least one character in the text box for a comment/reason. Click OK." When I tried the above, the "OK" in the dialogue was greyed.
The clock in the bottom right-hand corner was always incorrect. He could change the time, but once he shut the laptop down and turned it back on, the time was incorrect again. I did some research online and tried many things to fix the issue, none of them were successful. So, he has just been putting up with the clock always being wrong. Then the other day when he turned it on, it wouldn't even boot Windows, and just says "time of day clock stopped".
Today i got a problem when i tryed Shut down my pc. I've shutdown my pc normally, it worked normal. It still does but i cant shut it off without BSOD. Windows recovery shutdown solution window says this:
Files that help describe the problem: C:WindowsMinidump112012-33212-01.dmp C:WindowsTempWER-38766-0.sysdata.xml
If i need to take a picture of my BSOD yust tell me, i'll do it.