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i m have an admin account and others are limited accounts. so i dont think installing drivers and other programs are possible as it not suppose to be able to happen with limited accounts.
i had bios power management, standby and hibernate and also screensaver off as my current settings...
http://search.microsoft.com/search/r...09F&View=en-us
Have search through here see if you can find a solution for your problem. They are all slightly different depending on what hardware you have and only you know that so just look through till you find something that look like it could be the problem.
If you dont find anything search fro the next error code: 0x00000500 and see what that brings up, this seems to refer to pci 2.1 devices.
Just keep going through thr error codes till you find something that describes your fault.
"if problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. disable BIOS memory option such as caching or shadowing. if you need to use safe mode...."
I take it you have tried this???
//edit, you could try this site too it describes it in more laymans terms.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/shutdown_issues_in_xp.htm
Hi whatever878787
1. You say that you "reformatted".................why did you have to do this, and what exactly did you do.................did you get any error messages on reinstalling?
2. Please look in your systemlog (run eventvwr.msc) and check all the error messages. It sounds as if you have a corrupted driver, that might tell us which one.
3. You say you don't have Roxio (EasyCD) have you ever had it?
4. Have you tried a repair reinstall of Windows?
5. Have you had any power supply problems/thunderstorms recently?
At this point it sounds to me that one of your devices has a driver that cannot shut it down properly, and that is what Windows is detecting.
Please let me know how you get on :)
i reformatted coz the pc isnt mine and it was running slow and hadnt been really maintained for a year or so... might have a bunch of adwares or spyware so i figure reformatting should be faster...
eventvwr has a bunch of cdrom errors on Aug 6th and then it was ok on aug 7th...
never ever had roxio.. only have nero..
never repair windows i always do fresh install.
no thunderstorms lately
however i had done a full system backup right after reinstalling windows so i might just restore windows... will tell how it goes when i restore it later
thanks for the help guys!
Hmmm,
That sort of confirms my suspicions regarding your CD drive and a corrupted driver?Quote:
eventvwr has a bunch of cdrom errors on Aug 6th and then it was ok on aug 7th...
You might try uninstalling it and letting Windows redetect.............use the driver from the CD?
If you can, would you C&P the event log messages into something like notepad and post them here so that I can take a look :)
i didnt install any driver for the cdrom.. it is MS's build in drivers
i might just reinstall windows
i just found out that the NIC driver is faulty... i disable it and everything went fine but i still cant fix the NIC driver... tried reinstalling but it still fails.. any suggestions?