Shutdown Problems

[A D Pay]

Apologies to all if I am going back over old ground, but have only just
found this group!

I have just upgraded to 7 Ultimate from Vista Ultimate and now have the
problem that when shutting down my system gets right through everything
correctly, but once it gets to the monitor being 'closed' it leaves the
fans and disks running. I have to then manually power off. Did not have
this problem once with Vista and at present have less software loaded
than previous and that does not include Spybot.

All suggestion welcome, as I'm getting a bit frustrated

 

[housetrained]

do a clean install

 

[Bob I]

Does the motherboard, BIOS and chipset drivers support Windows 7. Check
for updates at the motherboard manufacturers website. Update install as
needed.

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

Apologies to all if I am going back over old ground, but have only
just found this group!

I have just upgraded to 7 Ultimate from Vista Ultimate and now have
the problem that when shutting down my system gets right through
everything correctly, but once it gets to the monitor being 'closed'
it leaves the fans and disks running. I have to then manually power
off. Did not have this problem once with Vista and at present have
less software loaded than previous and that does not include Spybot.

All suggestion welcome, as I'm getting a bit frustrated

Sounds like you need to change the power button settings in the control
panel.

Here are a couple of links to sites that describe how to do it in both Vista
and it's latest clone, Windows 7.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-the-windows-vista-power-buttons-to-shut-down/

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-power-options-sleep-mode-problems.html

I suspect something is set to the sleep or hibernate mode rather than
shutdown but it could also be a setting in the bios as well. The second
link shows info on that as well as more than I wanted to read about the
subject.