A7V600-X shuts down too quickly

[repo]

hi.

one of my PC's is using a A7V600-x mobo with maxtor SATA drive.
when shutting down it seems to shut down too quickly. the end result being
that it has to do a disk check on start up.

OS is win xp pro sp1
512meg ram
CPU: XP 2600+
bios: 1003 beta 005

anyone any ideas.

 

[Centurion]

hi.

one of my PC's is using a A7V600-x mobo with maxtor SATA drive.
when shutting down it seems to shut down too quickly. the end result being
that it has to do a disk check on start up.

OS is win xp pro sp1
512meg ram
CPU: XP 2600+
bios: 1003 beta 005

anyone any ideas.

There was a similar issue a while ago that mainly affected pre-WinXP
versions (maybe WinXP too, I don't really use Windows anymore). Same deal
basically - system would shutdown before pending writes were committed to
disk (ie, the cache wasn't flushed before the plug gets pulled). MS
released a patch to fix it in the 'Recommended' updates section of
WindowsUpdate. Maybe you're missing that patch?

Cheers,

James

 

[notritenoteri]

I've got almost the identical config except for the SATA. It shuts down
fine. I've got all the security patches for sp1 and my bios is 1006.

SO there is hope.

 

[repo]

also got all reported patches, as per hfnetchk pro 4. and still getting
occassional probs.

I've got almost the identical config except for the SATA. It shuts down
fine. I've got all the security patches for sp1 and my bios is 1006.

SO there is hope.

 

[notritenoteri]

Have you checked the ASUS site for problems? You look to be at least 3
levels of BIOS behind me. That could be the problem.

also got all reported patches, as per hfnetchk pro 4. and still getting
occassional probs.

 

[notritenoteri]

One question how are you shutting down through XP or via the physical
switches?
if you are hitting the button it is possible to cause a disk check
situation on start up. If you check the ref manual there is material on
system panel conectors and the relationship between the switches and bios
settings you might want to check on that.

also got all reported patches, as per hfnetchk pro 4. and still getting
occassional probs.

 

[repo]

also on various reboots get "hardware monitor found an error" probably
connected to the quick shut down i'd guess

 

[Tim]

Hi,,
What produces that last error message and what is its exact phrasing?

Try a google on it and see how you get on. I did some searching on this and
came up with next to nothing. The only thing was a registry change to
elongate the time XP will give programs to shutdown so that XP does not
produce a "not responding - do you want to kill the program" error message
if the program is slow.... but I don't think thats it at all.

- Tim

 

[repo]

yup... done a pile of googling on this and same here.. nothing.
can't quite nail it down at all..