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I built my PC in early 2019 and it has been smooth sailing up until a few months ago.
I noticed that sometimes the computer would fail to complete shut down. The monitor turned off and the fans reduced speed but remained spinning. I was stuck having to do a forced shut down holding the power button.
I have a dual boot with Windows and macOS on separate drives. I primarily use macOS so I thought it was a hackintosh related problem.... until it happened in Windows a few times.
Another weird thing is while the shutdown stall happens at least a couple times a week, every ONCE in a while the audio won't be working in either operating system when I turn the computer back on. I.e. the audio option is completely greyed out as if the computer can't recognize the motherboard's built in audio options. I can usually fix this by powering it off a couple times then the audio will be back.
This is such a strange problem, I've never encountered anything like it. Almost posted on a hackintosh forum but today it happened again in Windows 10 so it seems to be completely random and can happen in either OS. I'd say the issue with the audio failing happens maybe 5-10% of time it fails to completely shutdown.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.
Seasonic Focus 600w PSU
ASUS PRIME B360M-A
3.6ghz Intel i3 8100 Quad Core
Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8GB
Samsung EVO 500gb SSD, Western Digital 1TB SSD
I built my PC in early 2019 and it has been smooth sailing up until a few months ago.
I noticed that sometimes the computer would fail to complete shut down. The monitor turned off and the fans reduced speed but remained spinning. I was stuck having to do a forced shut down holding the power button.
I have a dual boot with Windows and macOS on separate drives. I primarily use macOS so I thought it was a hackintosh related problem.... until it happened in Windows a few times.
Another weird thing is while the shutdown stall happens at least a couple times a week, every ONCE in a while the audio won't be working in either operating system when I turn the computer back on. I.e. the audio option is completely greyed out as if the computer can't recognize the motherboard's built in audio options. I can usually fix this by powering it off a couple times then the audio will be back.
This is such a strange problem, I've never encountered anything like it. Almost posted on a hackintosh forum but today it happened again in Windows 10 so it seems to be completely random and can happen in either OS. I'd say the issue with the audio failing happens maybe 5-10% of time it fails to completely shutdown.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.
Seasonic Focus 600w PSU
ASUS PRIME B360M-A
3.6ghz Intel i3 8100 Quad Core
Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8GB
Samsung EVO 500gb SSD, Western Digital 1TB SSD
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