I just fired up a new VISTA system this week and am having a unique problem.
When I press the shutdown button the screen fades to black and shortly there after I loose the video signal to the monitor. When I restart I get an error message that Windows did not shutdown properly.
What's really weird is that if I press RESTART in VISTA the system shuts off completely (no power to fans) and then restarts on it's own just perfectly.
I found that if I delete the Nvidia video drivers the problem goes away and the system shuts down without a hitch. This is not a good solution.
I am using the latest NVidia driver and I have updated my MB to the latest BIOS.
I have pulled other hardware out to see if that makes a diffeerence with no luck.
The MB is a ASUS P5B-E and I have downloaded and installed the latest utilities and drivers from their painfully slow website.
Does anyone have any ideas on this one? I am stumped. Thanks.
System:
C2D E6400
ASUS P5B-E (BIOS 1202 Dated 3/28/07)
MSI Geforce 8800 GTS 640MG (100.65 drivers)
2 Gigs DDR2 PC800
2 160G WD SATA II hard drives running raid 0 on the Intel southbridge
Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS with newest VISTA drivers.
When I press the shutdown button the screen fades to black and shortly there after I loose the video signal to the monitor. When I restart I get an error message that Windows did not shutdown properly.
What's really weird is that if I press RESTART in VISTA the system shuts off completely (no power to fans) and then restarts on it's own just perfectly.
I found that if I delete the Nvidia video drivers the problem goes away and the system shuts down without a hitch. This is not a good solution.
I am using the latest NVidia driver and I have updated my MB to the latest BIOS.
I have pulled other hardware out to see if that makes a diffeerence with no luck.
The MB is a ASUS P5B-E and I have downloaded and installed the latest utilities and drivers from their painfully slow website.
Does anyone have any ideas on this one? I am stumped. Thanks.
System:
C2D E6400
ASUS P5B-E (BIOS 1202 Dated 3/28/07)
MSI Geforce 8800 GTS 640MG (100.65 drivers)
2 Gigs DDR2 PC800
2 160G WD SATA II hard drives running raid 0 on the Intel southbridge
Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS with newest VISTA drivers.