shutdown problem, it hangs...

[Alex Andra]

Somewhere along the line something got messed up in the shutdown routine and
it hangs when the "windows is shutting down" box appears. It goes through
the first two; "Logging off," and "Saving your settings" ok.

If I shut down without running a lot of aps it runs shuts down properly. If
I use it on the net for a while, run excell., do email via Outlook xp, and
then shut down, it hangs.

So far, to fix this, I have done the following:

Insured there is no virus in the system.
Installed all the xp sp1 critical patches.
Closed all programs running in the background prior to shut down.
Got new driver for the nvidia card and installed them.
Got a clean bill of health from AdAware and Spybot
Read a lot of stuff from a google search, but nothing there fixed it.

system: XP pro SP1, 512M PC 3200 DDR, nvidia Gforce 400 MX 64 Megs, WD 120G
, Plextor 12X burner, comcast cable internet, integrated sound, kb, optical
mouse, dell monitor, altec lansing spkers, AMD XP 2.6 G CPU, Asus A7VAX-X
mobo. This is a homebuilt system.

Any ideas much appreciated,

a

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Alex.

Your next step (maybe it should have been your first step?) is to visit MVP
Jim Eshelman's page on startup/shutdown problems:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

If you don't find the answer there, please post back. You've already done a
lot of the work (and that sounds like a nice rig), but maybe Jim's page can
trigger a thought that hadn't occurred to you before.

RC