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Windows 7 won't restart or shutdown when Power Plan changes are made.
Hi,
I've just finished a base (OS & various system utitilities) install of Windows 7 on a desktop machine to be used as a DAW. The primary reason for using Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) is because I have specific hardware that requires to be connected to the DAW and the last stable drivers for it are Windows 7 drivers.
So everything is still going well, and I have been just going through various updates (Windows Updates & other utility software) updates, to get that all out of the way, before I commence with the main DAW software installs.
However, since my last use of Windows 7 was on an old laptop I no longer own, I was also checking on certain OS tweaks to optimise the OS when using it.
One of those settings I went (for the first time ever on a desktop PC) was the "Power Plans" settings, which was set to their default settings (Balanced Power). Now on the laptop, I had it always set on "High Performance", since I always used the laptop with the charger connected, and was hardly ever with out the charger for long periods of time.
Now I have not been able to establish (from the various articles I read on Seven Forums or online) whether the various power plans are even relevant or beneficial in anyway when using a desktop computer, but I just figured "hey, I always used High Performance so let me set it to on".
However, the moment I made the change to the power plan and finished doing whatever other tweaks I was busy with, I tried to restart the desktop pc, and it went as far as the "Shutting Down" screen, with reticule that spins around, and the reticule spun and stopped and froze. The machine would stay like that until I either force a shutdown or restart using the front case buttons. This applies to when I do a shutdown as well.
I have since reverted to putting the power plan back to "Balanced Power" and there are no more restart or shutdown hangs that happen when the power plan is set to this.
Is there any explanation as to why changing of the power plan would prevent the pc from restarting or shutting down properly?
My basic system specs are:
ASUS Z97-K Motherboard
Intel Core i7 4790K CPU
16GB DDR3 RAM
512GB Samsung Pro SSD
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
GeForce GTS 450 Graphics Card
ESI ESP1010 Sound Card
Any insight into this will help.
Thanks. :)