strange shutdown

[luke]

Before, if I shut down my PC by slight push on its s/w the start up was via black screen doing all sorts of checks before starting windows.

Resently though if I s/w off my PC this way it shuts down OK & when I start it, it starts to windows normally.

In the CTRL Panel Power Options show, advance set to "shut down" & hybernate is ticked.

Is this behaviour normal?

thanx       luke

[justpassingthrough]

Before, if I shut down my PC by slight push on its s/w the start up was via black screen doing all sorts of checks before starting windows.

Resently though if I s/w off my PC this way it shuts down OK & when I start it, it starts to windows normally.

In the CTRL Panel Power Options show, advance set to "shut down" & hybernate is ticked.

Is this behaviour normal?

thanx       luke

if you dont use hybernate, uncheck it and make sure the option for 'when I press the power button" is set to 'shut down'


Other than that, make sure there are not wierd power managemt features enable in the bios

If you are getting a lot of disk activity at shutdown, its eith the memory is low because you used it up in a game like FSX or some program it writting to the disk at shutdown

[luke]

thanx,
if you shut down your PC with its  switch, what happens when you start it up?

Is it a normal startup or does it go in a black screen checking up the partitions before it starts in windows?                          luke