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PC hanging on shut down
Hi, have been searching all over the net for answers for my HTPC, don't seem to be able to use it for more than 2 weeks before a new problem occurs.
Standby mode works fine, goes into S3, wakes up to record, no issues there. Recently started using the Media Centre Standby Tool again but I believe that to be unrelated, as I've been having this problem intermittently even before that was installed.
Recently I've been experiencing some stutter on videos and live TV through MCE. When this happens, the machine will go onto the 'shutting windows down' screen, but will either take 7/8 minutes to switch off, or stay there indefinitely. Sometimes it will restart OK without issue, but this is getting few and far between. Tried to download the hotfix for the hang, no difference. For what it's worth, if I hard power the machine off when it hangs, then go back into MCE, it is usually ok.
Thought it may be something to do with the 640GB drive. This is because sometimes the hard drive won't display any folders within Explorer after it's been heavily used. So, i've moved everything off, did a full reformat through windows, and transferred everything back on. No difference to this shutdown issue. Reason for trying this was that I've been using a newsgroup program that was taxing the hard drive quite hard, but was still within the manufacturer's tolerance levels for temperature (46 degrees C).
This last time, was watching an HD satellite channel. CPU usage seemed to waver between 50 and 70 (which is higher than usual) but nothing out of the ordinary was jumping out in the processes. It isn't always to do with that 640GB drive not showing files either.
As another note, I restarted last night, it played TV fine for 3 hours, went to sleep last night, woke it up this morning and still working fine. Can't establish a pattern to it.
If I post a log (if someone can tell me where and how), can anyone diagnose?
Many thanks