I upgraded to windows vista (got a Dell E1705, and the upgrade disk). So I upgraded, and now aobut 50% (or maybe 80%) of the times I try to turn it off it will spend 10 min (sometimes more), and then it boots vista back up, and says that "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shut down". I often turn it off by holding the button for a couple seconds.
The strange thing is that there seems to be no pattern. I haven't detected anything, it seems random that sometimes it shuts off and sometimes it recovers from an unexpected shutdown.
Although usually once it has recovered once, it wont shut down normally again, so it can't be random.
I though maybe it was a common thing.
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Do you have Catalyst Control centre installed? I had the same problem so uninstalled CCC and kept just the ati drivers. Newer versions of CCC don't display this problem. Check out the shutdown utility log in Vista.
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Maybe reinstalling ACPI drivers will help.
Well I upgraded to Vista, and now the thing wont shut off
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Abyss, May 10, 2007.