Hangs On Restart / Shutdown Crashes On Startup
Apr 17, 2007
Working on a laptop for one of my friends, and came across few problems I couldn't fix.When attempting to properly shutdown or restart, xp (SP2) hangs on "Saving your settings"I searched this problem and found many similar problems, but no fixes.Most sites/forums reffered the problems to SP1.When turning on the computer, after login, it hangs, then crashes (taskbar dissapears as well as desktop icons)My quickfix i've been using while removing the viruses/spyware from the machine is kill explorer.exe and restart it, this crashes many services (and viruses) that were running on the machine.it starts fine in safemode, but still doesn't restart/shutdown and I don't know how to fix it in safemode anyways.The computer is fully updated XP SP2.
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Jan 4, 2007
When I try to turn off or restart Windows XP, it hangs at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. I have rebooted in safe mode and was able to restart in safe mode. I have tried system restore and run the check disk utility without success. I checked the Event Viewer and saw 2 recurring warnings from EvntAgnt. The first is event 1003 and the second is event 1015. I have also run the free TweakNow and Eusing registry cleaners.
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Apr 3, 2007
I have successfully cloned my primary c partition of a dual boot system with XP Pro on the 1st primary partition c: and XP Pro on the 2nd primary partition as d: I can boot into my XP on the c: drive with no problem, but when I attempt to boot into my XP on the D drive it hangs on the blue screen right before booting into the user profiles. And believe it or not it continuously loops making the windows startup sound and the shutdown sound. It does the same in safe mode.
I will try to explain the process on what I did so it can help you experts figure out this dilemma that I'm having.My old drive an IDE 100GB IBM primary drive was partitioned into 3 parts: c: 30GB FAT32 primary d: 30GB FAT32 " e: 30gb FAT32 "
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Apr 17, 2007
My PC won't shutdown through Windows (nor will it 'Restart' through Windows).
I'm suspecting that it's some sort of dll error
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Jan 29, 2007
Looking for some help, started having problems yesterday when i noticed that my PC took a bit longer to boot than usual.I've had a few crashed when writing to disk, i presume this as i was downloading a dj mix (perfectly legit, from a music forum!) and the screen would freeze, no error messages and i had to turn off. Same thing happened again, i defragged my drive and still has issues, almost freezing, stuttering but if i stop surfing, it recovers.System is C2D E6400, Segate SATA 160GB, 1GB Corsair value ram no over clocking.
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Jun 14, 2006
Im new to the forums, some very helpful members here! just hope someone can help me! here is the problem i am having I have Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2, v2096. Version 2000. Anyway,when i turn my computer on from the power, the Windows logo appears with the bar going across loading as normal. Then suddenly it will either stop in the middle of the bar loading and will hang there and not Load up! OR the bar will just keep running across under the logo and nothing will load.It does this all the time, if you get a lucky day it will load up. but it takes HOURS!! does anybody know what the problem is or how it can be resolved?
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Jan 30, 2005
Often when I shutdown, I get the message that explorer.exe is not responding and I must hit end now to continue shutdown. This happens in safe mode as well as normal mode. Is this a problem? If so, how do I correct it. I use Windows XP and it is updated.
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Sep 5, 2005
i just instaled win xp and office. everything works ok.just when i shutdown the computer it restart it self as if i just pushed the restart button. that is why i need each time to reset the computer.
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Aug 31, 2005
I always met the problems when I wanted to log off/shutdown/restart Windows XP Professional. When I click log off/shutdown/restart button, nothing happened. What I can do is just press the power button 5 sec to shutdown. But that problem didn't happen every time. I met this error in a lot of computers. I think it's not a hardware problem.
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Dec 12, 2005
I asked this on the Hardware forum, but I think its more suitable here:Whenever I try and shut my computer down, or put it into hibernate, it restarts the computer: Power button - restarts when it should turn it off Start>Turn Off Computer>Turn Off - Restarts it Hibernate - The 'Hibernating' bar reaches the end, then it restarts. When it restarts after hibernate, everything appears already loaded (just as if I had brought it out of hibernate the proper way).I have tried all the common problem, which I found on google (Such as the uatomatic restart problem), all to no effect.I have installed no new software recently, and changed no settings that I know of.
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Sep 18, 2007
my computer it won't shut down or restart i have verizon and it comes wit a internet security suite and it has a anitvirus on it. i wouldn't update so i uninstalled it and installed it again but when its done it says u need to restart the computer so the programs can work rite but the cmputer won't restart it jus stays there and when i hit shutdown it jus stays there too. its like my computer won't shutdown or restart when i want it to.
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Oct 27, 2007
I just spoke to my daughter at college who is having trouble with her Acer laptop, running XP SP2, Intel Celleron, 2GB RAM, and using Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite. When she clicks "shut down" the laptop appears to shut down, but then restarts. "Restart" is not selected. I did a Google search and found a known problem with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 and with Direct CD 5.0, but as best I can tell she has neither program installed (she looked in "programs" folder, and in control panel under "add and remove programs" and couldn't find either listed). I also had her right click "my computer", "properties", "advanced", "startup and recovery - settings", and uncheck the "automatically restart" box in "system failure" section. But her laptop still restarts at shutdown.
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Aug 29, 2005
I inherited a LAN with Win2000 RAID 5 as the main server. I am not IT trained and have learned some by reading books, papers, etc. but still have along way to go. Things run fine except that every 1-2 weeks the server will either crash with no BSOD just blackness and no response to keyboard or mouse, or it will BSOD and save a mini dump, or it will reboot itself and sometimes save a mini dump. I have no clue how to read these dumps.
There is never anything indicating any kind of problem in the Event log prior, but after I get a message saying the previous shutdown was unexpected. When the server crashes the other DC on that domain will not serve the clients although they share the AD. I have 2 other domains, both WINNT, and one disallows access when the main server crashes and the other domain I have no feedback on.
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Apr 13, 2006
Recently have got a new comp with pretty good specs (xp media centre edition), and plenty of ram and memory. However I have noticied that now and again i will get a crash or a hang. Typically when i exit MSN messenger it will crash and stop responding. I have also noticed that sometimes my sound doesnt work. Then when i restart it will be fine again! I know this shouldnt be happeneing on a new comp but not sure how to solve this problem or even if this is in the right topic.
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Jan 8, 2006
I have Pentium 4-1.4 with 256sdram and my problem is that when i am closing one page of Then the pc restart can anyone help me with this ?I think the maybe that is a memory pro any advice.
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Jan 30, 2007
I have a custom box and an old gateway box. I wanted to transfer all my files from one box to another, so I rammed in the gateway hard drive, copied all files in the root of the drive, and pasted it into a folder on my New desktop. When the file transfer finished, the folder (on the New desktop) disappeared So, I checked the hidden files in explorer.Not there Well, I used the command prompt. Not there either.After a while, I forgot about it, and just recently got a new defrag program (SmartDefrag).
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Feb 10, 2006
ive tryed heaps of differnt drivers and the one mentioned above are the ones im running now The Actual Problem is that i set the Resoloution to 1024x786x32 bit in display and everytime i turn of the comp or restart it goes back to 640x480x8bit! the windows in an old install from a collage ! maybe this is the problemThe Settings wont stick!!! even with running comp with no Drivers?(no chipset,display) and it still reverts back to 640-480-8bit
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Aug 1, 2005
I'm using XP home edition and for some reason my pc won't shutdown or restart. When i select turn off or restart nothing happens, it just stays at my desktop. I tried to bring up task manager and alt - F4 but still nothing happens. It just stays at my desktop. Everything else is working but it seems i cant shutdown or restart.
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Oct 20, 2006
Sometimes when I tell the computer to shut down or restart, it won't..until I make it standby and then wake it back up again and then press shut down so that it will work. How can I fix this problem?
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Apr 29, 2008
I'm not too knowledgeable about the technical side of computing, so please bear with me.I'm running Windows XP Professional (SP2) on an AMD Athlon XP 3200+. My grandson showed me a game called Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, which I fell in love with and subsequently bought for my own computer. As I only had 'on board' graphics, the game obviously wouldn't run, so I bought an Nvidia 6200 graphics card.Following the instructions which came with it, I installed the card successfully. The only thing I couldn't do was disable the 'on board' graphics, but as my computer recognised the new card automatically, I went ahead and installed the driver.The new card didn't need an extra power source, as there was no connector on it. Incidentally, I did find the 'on board' graphics in the System > Properties list, but nothing happens when I click on it, so I assume I can't disable it.
Everything appeared to work well and I got the Roller Coaster game up and running beautifully.Some time later, after I had closed the game and gone on to other things, I needed to restart my computer, so I went through the usual restart sequence.Things went well at first but some way through the Windows XP loading screen, where the little blue bars scroll across, my computer simply switched off, totally! I tried again (obviously from a cold boot this time), but the same thing happened.To cut a long story short, I eventually removed the new card, and restored my system to a safe point, and it's now running perfectly again, although I can't play my game now.I'd be really grateful for any advice you can offer as to what the problem might be, as I want to build some more roller coasters!
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Sep 16, 2006
I recently re-installed windows XP Pro after a clean format. I backed up all drivers from my system32 folder and used them to make sure that all drivers would still be there after the reinstall. I still have all the same programs installed (McAfee AV, ZoneAlarm Personal, Spybot, and Ad-Aware) but now when I log off I simply get the windows xp logo on the blue background screen. (The Saving Your settings, Logging, off, Windows is shutting down dialoge does not occur) I have made no hardware changes. I must also note that this does not happen all of the time, but it also isn't happening with any discernable pattern, so it's hard to narrow down what may be the cause
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Aug 19, 2006
When I try to shut down or Restart my PC it hangs when it gets to the Windows is Shutting Down page & just stays there,wont go any further, the only things Ive done has been to install the latest Windows Updates which included Windows SP 2 (I have Windows updates turned on so they automatically update) & install I Tunes,
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Jan 3, 2009
Currently when I log onto my computer, it takes more than 5 minutes to load. I have already browsed through many threads and have minimized the number of start-up programs. It was a little better but it still wasn't like how it was before. Also, when I want to shutdown my computer, I have to wait 10 minutes before I will hear the "Windows turning-off sound" and it will shutdown. Does anyone have any clue about how to fix this?
The computer in general appears to be running smoothly once everything is loaded into the computer except for when I want to add/remove any programs where there is a huge lag after uninstalling a program! These problems started occurring about a couple days ago. I haven't been doing anything differently nor have I installed any new programs onto the new computer. I have scanned for viruses using Symantec Endpoint Protection (and no results) and also used CCleaner to clean everything else.
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Mar 6, 2008
everytime i go to shutdown or restart my computer i get this errorthe instruction OXO28352ED REF MEMORY OXO28352ED MEMORY COULD NOT BE READ.
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Jul 28, 2009
Getting an error message that goes STOP: 0x0000008E. Everytime i try to shut down or restart. I was also getting alot of Buffer Overflow Blocked warnings from mcafee before i uninstalled and used SpyBot Search And Destroy which has cleaned a couple trojans off of my comp that mcafee did not find.? Also everytime i open a program or even I.E. A seperate window opens up thats all text, And if i close that window the whole program closes.
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Apr 27, 2005
my computer has begun taking FOREVER when I shutdown/restart it. I shut it down about 30 minutes ago to open it up and clean the dust out and I timed it. I was waiting at the blue "Windows is shutting down" screen for 5 minutes and 15 seconds!I don't know what is wrong, I haven't changed anything recently that should have cause this, not to my knowledge anyways.The only things that I can think of that I did recently was upgrade my video card to a ATI Radeon 9600XT and set my page file to be cleared on shutdown.
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Aug 22, 2005
Is there a way I can make a shutdown and log off button on my desktop so that when I double click on them it either shuts the computer off or restarts it intstead of going to the start menu?
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May 16, 2005
My computer will not shut down. When I hit the "start" button and then select "shutdown" it goes through all of the motions, but then it reboots. It is almost as though it thinks that I am hitting the "restart" button instead of the "shutdown" button. When I followed the checklist in Windows, it suggested a restore point. I tried that but it said that I had made no changes to the computer since that restore point and therefore I could not use the restore point technique.
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Nov 23, 2007
My laptop freezes 9/10 when i choose shutdown and i have to force it by holding down the power button sometimes (4/10) it freezes when you leave it on its own for a while, usually when the screensaver kicked in it would ask for user to log on again..it was when bringing it out of screensaver it would do this - so i disabled the screensaver and now its not as often when it happens - its just if its been left for a while sometimes the screen will go black and freeze, it happened once or twice when logging off and other user goes to log on.. so t appears to be problem with the log on part of the setup
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Jan 6, 2009
when ever i turn on/ restart/ start my laptop after hibernate , the PC just hangs if and only if the internet connection is on. So i have to power down my laptop, switch off internet, restart for normal working.I am able to login into my account, i see the desktop, and then the system freezes.There are no icons in the system tray except time. when i move my cursor over the system tray or taskbar, i get a busy hourglass symbol
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Apr 17, 2006
Recently my PC stopped restarting properly.If I choose restart it takes longer than usual, then windows shuts down, leaving the hard drive light on, then nothing. It just hangs there. I end up forcing shut down.It simply never tries to startup again. If I choose "shut down" everything goes OK, PC shuts off normally.I've heard that a friend had the same problem with an older PC (Mines 6yrs old) and he said he replaced the battery and the problem stopped.
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