Windows 7 64bit. Hangs when I restart, but shutdown/restart works fine

I just rebuilt my game pc and ever since I installed windows 7 64bit anytime I hit restart it says windows is shutting down, the screen goes black and stays black. I have to press the power button to force a shut down and then restart it. BUT, if I shut down windows with the shut down button the pc powers off normally and hitting the power button makes it boot just fine. So everything works perfect, except when I try to use the restart button on windows it hangs after it says shutting down windows.

I have every update available from windows update installed already, disc has service pack 1 on it already.

I am running windows 7 64 bit pro installed. (I did a clean install, no upgrades)



My hardware in it is...... (everything has the current drivers installed)

Gigabyte z170xp-sli motherboard that has the current bios installed.

Intel core i7 6700k 4.0ghz cpu.

Crucial mx300 SSD hard drive.

Evga gtx 1070 video card.

Sound blaster z sound card.

16gb corsair ddr4 ram.

Corsair 650 watt PSU.

27 inch samsung monitor connected via hdmi.

Run System File Checker
On a CMD type: sfc /scannow

No.

All I have plugged into the pc is a usb wired keyboard, use dongle for wireless mouse, hdmi cable for the monitor, network cable, power cord and thats it. Really everything I have plugged in it I had plugged in it before with no problems. Id been running this pc just fine for years. I just recently did an upgrade to the motherboard, video card, processor, ram and hard drive and when I reinstalled the OS on the new system thats when I started having this issue.

I didnt see anything running in the background aside from the normal stuff.

Run System File Checker. On a CMD type: sfc /scannow

Is Bios up to date?
Did you configured BIOS settings properly?

Yes bios is up to date. Its version 20 for my motherboard, thats first thing I updated after I got everything mounted in the PC. I did my fresh install of windows AFTER I updated the bios to make sure there werent any problems.

I ran the sfc scan and it said windows resource protection did not find any integrity problems.

I dont know about the bios settings really. Beyond just making sure the time is right, turning off the onboard sound since I use a soundcard, and making it so it boots from the hard drive first I dont mess with it because I dont know most of whats in there.

There is a CMD that you can make a shortcut with it a see what happens.
To restart type C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /t 000
For more options type C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /?

Megahertz07 said:

There is a CMD that you can make a shortcut with it a see what happens.
To restart type C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /t 000
For more options type C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /?

I tried that and it just hung on restart again.