something weird with vista x64 shutdown...

It just happen suddently, first my wireless card will disable itself after a certain time of usage then now I couldn't shutdown ever since I reinstall wireless driver and OSD driver....

It's weird, and I have checked EventLog and uninstall the conflicting softwares, but it still doesn't shutoff. And the weird thing is that if I hold the power button to force it shut down after probably 2 mins after the "shutting down..." screen appears, the next time I boot up vista doesn't detects the previous force shutdown and it boots up normally...
Also, I tried booting to Safe Mode, and the most hilarious thing happens...that vista can't shutdown in safe mode too...(or simply I just don't have the patience to wait...at least for a few mins already...)

I am curious what happened to vista? Does it refuse to shutdown automatically? Or there is something I didn't know?
Something must have gone wrong in vista, but not anything else. Anyone has any clue?

PS: everything else works fine.

 

no one has any ideas?

 

Try reinstalling Vista?

 

FoxTrot, thanks for the suggestion, but I won't reinstall. I have set up a lot of stuff on the old vista, I don't want to reinstall. There must be other ways.

 

If that problem started happening after you reinstalled those two drivers, it might be the drivers that might be causing Vista not to shut down.

You can try doing a system restore to a restore point before you reinstalled the wireless driver and the OSD utility. Either that or uninstall those two drivers, restart, and then reinstall the drivers.

 

try useing a driver sweeper/cleaner so you start clean and then restart and re install then try hope it works ....

 

Every once in a blue moon, one of my Vista machines will refuse to shut down. If that was the case, I'd say it is normal, but your situation is definitely not.

Re-install your Intel chipset drivers first. Let us know if you can't find them/don't know what they are.

If that doesn't work, uninstall your video card, sound card, etc - everything. Then reinstall in the following order:
1. Chipset
2. Graphics card
3. Sound card
4. Wireless card
5. Whatever else

One other suggestion - you could try a Windows repair. It's basically like reinstalling the OS, except you don't lose all your data. It will overwrite all the OS files and re-load them. See here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html

In order, my suggestions are least to most riskiest (in terms of data loss). Make sure you BACK UP YOUR DATA before you do any of the above.

 

Chaz gives advice, and it's good? Wow..and here I was thinking you were just an ugly Fett mask.

I'd agree with Chaz.. likely just a conflict.

 

Thanks guys for the advice, I will try to reinstall the drivers or repair windows either way see which one will solve the problem for me.

I will be posting updated information.

Thanks again.