Couple of V1S Questions

I have the V1S and am generally quite happy with it. But, there are a couple of nagging things with it I would love to figure out:

The first is a major issue with shutting down, it probably hangs on the shutting down screen 8 out of every 10 times I try (I give up after 5 minutes of the shutting down screen), I need to do a hard power off and then have the long boot because of an unexpected shut down. I read another post where someone had the same issue, does reinstalling Vista really fix it? Has anyone else had this problem and fix it with a reinstall?

The second issue, which might or might not be with the V1S, is when I use the power station it often takes me a couple of minutes to get video on an external monitor. I need to go through the nvidia control panel and specify that I want to use an external monitor, at which point it takes a minute or two before I see video. If I do a Function F8 to enable the other monitor I end up with no video on either screen.

 

Hey man,

I have the exact same problem, and its driving me nuts! I'm hoping for a bios update or something that would fix this . . . I'm overseas and dont really have the option of reinstalling right now!

Also, for all of you testing the battery wear issue . . . what program can you use besides NHC? I installed it to check and it wreaked havok with my power plans, causing my screen to go extra dim for no reason. Good riddance to that--anyone suggest anything else?

 

Try RMclock, under battery it shows all the same info as NHC

 

Reinstalling Widnows may fix the problem, but it will not tell you what was causing the problem, and you could end up with the problem again. There are three things I'd recommend to try to determine, fix, and/or isolate the problem.

Clean the system:
Use a registry cleaning program clean the registy of obsolete programs that windows may be trying to launch, load, and later unload. Clear your temp files.

Remove unnecessary programs that run at startup:
Remove any programs and/or services from the windows startup that you don't use, or don't need autostarting.

Close all programs before shutting down.
Before you tell the system to shutdown shutdown all the programs you have running including any programs you have on the taskbar. If your computer shuts down correctly every time after closing everything before shutting down then one of the programs you shut down may be the cause of the problem.

If you find the system consistantly shuts down once you've shutdown your anti-virus program before exiting windows, but it doesn't when you leave it running, when you exit windows, then you know that is the program that needs troubleshooting or updating.

Do what you can to try to isolate where the problem is originating.

 

Try pressing the Bluetooth button when it doesn't shutdown.

If this works, then a Windows update could totally fix the shutdown problem.

 

Thanks, I'll try these out this week end and report back.

 

i have the same issue using pressing the blue tooth button does close my laptop though

 

I don't currently have any bluetooth devices so I have been keeping it off anyways.

 

I don't have any bluetooth devices but I tried pressing any buttons when it didn't reboot and when I hit the bluetooth button it suddenly did.

 

I think I found the problem. I have a Logitech MX3200 keyboard and mouse, they are wireless and have a USB receiver. If I boot with the receiver unplugged it always shuts down and if I boot with it plugged in it always fails. It's plugged into the power station so I wasn't always using it. I had installed Logitech's SetPoint software because it would tell me the battery status. If I killled the SetPoint application from Task Manager it made no difference in the shut down problem (SetPoint would start whether or not the receiver was plugged in). So the solution I found was to uninstall SetPoint, killing it wasn't enough. It seems to have remedied it.

I agree that reinstalling Windows isn't a real solution, the problem would most likely resurface when the problem software is reinstalled.

Now, if I can figure out the monitor issue I'll be happy camper.

 

And the monitor issue was with the monitor, a Gateway FPD2275W. Apperently it needs to be unplugged every now and then to "reset" it or problems like mine can come up. Wonderful

So two V1S issues that weren't V1S issues at all. It's a great laptop