Computer stops responding on shutdown...

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 by caveman23213 | Discussion: Windows XP

IN the past my computer would freeze at the the shutdown screen occasionally, but now it happens everytime i shut it down. Does anyone know how to fix this? It hangs at the "Windows is shutting down..." screen on restarts and shutdowns. I did some research on google but i still couldnt a solution.
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Majic7
Reply #41 Monday, November 21, 2005 4:08 AM
This probably isn't relevant but for the last fews days I've had a problem with parts of AOL and MS antispyware hanging when going to standby. Slow shut down and restart. Gcasserv and woal.exe. The last time explorer was hanging too. Panicked and did a hard reboot. Just checked my MS update history and the last one was on 10 Nov. dealing with a security problem in the Graphics Rendering Engine. The last MS antispyware update was on the 17th. This could have done it. Did a repair through AOL, hope this takes care of it.

Majic7
Reply #42 Monday, November 21, 2005 4:40 AM
Just remembered what I was doing. The main problem was with AOL. Sometimes it would not start. But a restart would fix it. When I restarted I would get the end program popups for waol and gcasServ. First indication of something not right was a message from AOL about losing service when system went to standby. I thought it might have been from a auto update. I thought the gcas ran all the time and was confused as to why it was causing a conflict and needed to be closed to do a restart. The waol was self evident. The timing is right on the update to have caused the problem but I don't know why. And why did explorer get involved the last time I had this problem?

Bichur
Reply #43 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:07 PM
still funny

yrag
Reply #44 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:34 PM
You're cold, Bichur.........very cold........

..........and correct

Bichur
Reply #45 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:45 PM




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Corky_O
Reply #46 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:45 PM

Majic7,

I am not sure what the issue is, but I run MS Anti-spyware (current '5779' definitions), as well as the "graphics rendering engine" update from MS........

No issue on either my desktop or notebook with both of these program/updates installed.

Have you followed yraq's advice in comment #1 yet?


Lantec
Reply #47 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:26 PM
Thanks Bichur..it's been a lonnggg day. I needed a good laugh

Corky_O your taking things to serious look at the dates.

Corky_O
Reply #48 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:44 PM

Corky_O your taking things to serious look at the dates.

Oops.........Duh?


Bichur
Reply #49 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:00 PM

funnier and funnier

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #50 Thursday, December 1, 2005 6:07 PM
My computer also stops responding on shutdown. But I kinda like it that way....

Bichur
Reply #51 Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:20 PM

starkers
Reply #52 Friday, December 2, 2005 9:40 AM
My puter stops responding when I shutdown, also, but a while ago it would turn itself on again a while later

No joke, it really did.

I never ever figured out why, but I'd hear it running after shutting down completely....and as suddenly as it started doing that, it stopped.

Twighlight Zone..Outer Limits stuff!!

yrag
Reply #53 Friday, December 2, 2005 12:00 PM
.........Rod Sterling lives.....

starkers; next time it does it, reverse (or, more likely since it comes and goes, it's just loose) the Power Switch plug on your MB front panel.....

........we now return control of................

starkers
Reply #54 Saturday, December 3, 2005 4:22 AM
"starkers; next time it does it, reverse (or, more likely since it comes and goes, it's just loose) the Power Switch plug on your MB front panel....."

I don't know if it was the power switch or not...but I got so tired of reshutting down, one night I switched off at the power outlet after shutting down normally...after that, no more mysterious 'doodoodoo, doodoodoo' startups.

Mysteriously came, mysteriously went

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #55 Saturday, December 3, 2005 7:24 AM
Let me guess... "ccapp.exe is not responding"... ? Just one of the reasons I nuked Norton

Jafo
Reply #56 Saturday, December 3, 2005 9:59 AM

Any suggestions?

AVG....


Lantec
Reply #57 Monday, December 5, 2005 9:54 PM
Sorry....I just couldn't let it scroll off the boards. I've become attached to it.

yrag
Reply #58 Monday, December 5, 2005 10:06 PM

Bichur
Reply #59 Tuesday, December 6, 2005 12:46 AM
Maybe some helpful admin could go in and edit the title to bold?

Island Dog
Reply #60 Tuesday, December 6, 2005 9:16 AM

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