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Raven-XPS

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April 19th, 2007 08:00

My Computer Won't Turn Off, Help Please !!!

XPS 700 runing Windows Vista Home Premium, when I click "Start" Menu and click "Shut Down" My system won't turn off, my monitor turned off, but my computer sits there, and I have too manually hold the power button to turn it off,  can someone help with this issue?...

gdwrnch3

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April 19th, 2007 10:00

cisconetdude

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April 19th, 2007 12:00

there could be a more obvious answer.  My vista install puts the shutdown button as hibernate.  this is standard are microsoft wants you to never turn your machine off again. lol  I had to search to change the button to shutdown instead of hibernate.  there is a way.

Raven-XPS

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April 19th, 2007 18:00

gdwrnch3 I installed it, and it worked,   Thank you!

winnieB

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April 19th, 2007 18:00

just do I what I do.....un plug your machine everytime you wanna power down.

Raven-XPS

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April 19th, 2007 19:00

WinnieB,  I also have another problem on this issue
 
I have Windows Vista Home Premium Installed and trying to install Windows XP Home Edition Media Center 2005 again on my PC. here's what happen when I try installing Windows XP
 
1. Inserted XP CD and powered up PC:
 
    • Press any key to boot from CD
    • Windows set-up screen appears with status line at bottom
    • Status line shows Windows set-up is loading various drivers
    • Starting Windows message appears
    • After 10 secs or so blue screen appears with following message: 

'If this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps:Check for viruses. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured & terminated. Run CHKDISK to check for hard drive corruption and then restart your computer.'

Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).

2. Restarted PC and exactly the same as in 1 happened, same thing happens.

3. Restarted PC in DOS and ran CHKDISK & SCANDISK and no errors reported.

Can someone help me with this issue? Thanks

 

XPS 700 Black Chassis, Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 @ 2.4GHz,

4GB Dual Rank @ 667MHz Ram

Nvidia GeForce 7950GX2

24 in (24.0 in viewable) 2407FPW Wide Aspect Digital Flat Panel Display

2-250GB Seagate SATA

1-500GB HDD Seagate SATA

Windows Vista Home Premium

winnieB

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April 19th, 2007 19:00

I thought I was gonna help :(

winnieB

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April 19th, 2007 21:00

is the xp cd a dell oem version of xp?  you may be experiencing a lack of drivers if you are not using the dell os cd.
 
 
 
XPS 410
Pentium C2D E6700 2.66
2 GB @ 667mzh (2 dimms)
Dual 80GB Raptors @ 10,000 RPM in RAID 0 (silenced)
320GB hdd
160GB hdd
NVIDIA 7900GS Zalman VF-900cu
ATI TV Wonder 650 HD
Diamond 24-bit 7.1 surround, w/ dolby digital live
2407 & 2001 monitors
logitech G7 mouse, G15 keyboard

----------------------------------"GAME ON"-------------------------------

gdwrnch3

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April 19th, 2007 22:00

Raven, you are welcome.
  If you want to keep Vista, you need to take out 1 video card, disable SLI, and it wouldn't hurt to remove the soundblaster, and enable the onboard sound until creative straightens out their drivers. There is a patch to use 4 gigs of ram, you will find that here:
 
This could in fact fix other issues, but I know it fixed my 4 gig of ram bluescreen.
And hear are the latest Nvidia drivers, I would try them and see if that stops the bluescreen:
 
After using Vista for all this time, I will NOT go back to XP...For the moment, I am using onboard sound, and my 64 bit 700 has a 7900 card, and the 32 bit is running an 8800 card.

Raven-XPS

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April 19th, 2007 22:00

I will try and fix the blue screen with the updates and patches, i'll let you know what my results are, thank you. 
 
 
 
 

XPS 700 Black Edition

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Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (4MB L2 Cache, @ 2.4GHz, 1066 FSB)

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium

4GB Dual Rank (4 DIMMs) @ 667MHz Ram

1GB Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual - GPU Graphics Cards

24 inch (24.0 in viewable) 2407FPW Wide Aspect Digital Flat Panel Display

2-250GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

1-500GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, w/Dolby Digital 5.1

gdwrnch3

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April 19th, 2007 22:00

You are welcome, I love Vista, I'm sure you will too.

Raven-XPS

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April 19th, 2007 22:00

Windows XP Home Edition 2005 is from Dell when I bought this computer, just recently installed Windows Vista Home Premium from Dell also, it keep going Blue screen on me, so i'm trying to re-install Windows XP
 
 

XPS 700 Black Edition

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Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 (4MB L2 Cache @ 2.4GHz, 1066 FSB)

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium

4GB Dual Rank (4 DIMMs) @ 667MHz Ram

1GB Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual - GPU Graphics Cards

24 inch (24.0 in viewable) 2407FPW Wide Aspect Digital Flat Panel Display

2-250GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

1-500GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, w/Dolby Digital 5.1



Message Edited by Raven-XPS on 04-19-2007 06:19 PM

winnieB

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April 19th, 2007 22:00

hmmm, you could have a bad stick of memory.

Raven-XPS

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April 20th, 2007 04:00

It's looking good right now, running most of my applications without blue screen or restarts. my Dual graphics card seem to work just fine. thanks again
 
 
 
 
 

XPS 700 Black Edition

__________________________________________________________________
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (4MB L2 Cache, @ 2.4GHz, 1066 FSB)

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium

4GB Dual Rank (4 DIMMs) @ 667MHz Ram

1GB Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual - GPU Graphics Cards

24 inch (24.0 in viewable) 2407FPW Wide Aspect Digital Flat Panel Display

2-250GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

1-500GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, w/Dolby Digital 5.1



Message Edited by Raven-XPS on 04-20-2007 12:05 AM

Message Edited by Raven-XPS on 04-20-2007 12:05 AM

Message Edited by Raven-XPS on 04-20-2007 12:06 AM

gdwrnch3

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April 20th, 2007 09:00

Did you add the 158.1 nvidia drivers? They made a huge difference on my 700's

Raven-XPS

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April 26th, 2007 21:00

158.1 nvidia drivers?  Can you please link this to me,  Thanks.
 
 
 
 
 

XPS 700 Jet Black Edition

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Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (4MB L2 Cache @ 2.4GHz, 1066 FSB)

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium

4GB Dual Rank (4 DIMMs) @ 667MHz Ram

1GB Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual - GPU Graphics Cards

24 inch (24.0 in viewable) 2407FPW Wide Aspect Digital Flat Panel Display

1-150GB Western Digital SATA 10,000RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

2-250GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

1-500GB Seagate SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache

Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, w/Dolby Digital 5.1

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