To All the fellow souls out there:
I tried all conceivable ways to solve my shutdown problem (windows would hang at the shutdown screen). I couldn't but laugh at some of the suggestions of downloading a special software (not the patch) or create a desktop shortcut.
For me, what solved the problem was flashing my bios with an updated one. I KNOW that for most of you outthere, the risks outweigh the benefit. After all only those who have had their bios flashed out of existense can fathom the potential damage. But for the few ones who are willing to take the risk, go to your motherboard's web site, find information about your bios, and download the latest version. Keep handy a tech support phone number of the manufacturer to order a new bios should your endeavor fail. Then proceed to flash your bios (the whole process is really easy).
So good luck and be reasonable. For me, updating my bios gave me a totally new computer. When I tried to update my motherboard drivers though, my system would hang up so I had to unistall them (helps if you actually read the readme.file
I tried all conceivable ways to solve my shutdown problem (windows would hang at the shutdown screen). I couldn't but laugh at some of the suggestions of downloading a special software (not the patch) or create a desktop shortcut.
For me, what solved the problem was flashing my bios with an updated one. I KNOW that for most of you outthere, the risks outweigh the benefit. After all only those who have had their bios flashed out of existense can fathom the potential damage. But for the few ones who are willing to take the risk, go to your motherboard's web site, find information about your bios, and download the latest version. Keep handy a tech support phone number of the manufacturer to order a new bios should your endeavor fail. Then proceed to flash your bios (the whole process is really easy).
So good luck and be reasonable. For me, updating my bios gave me a totally new computer. When I tried to update my motherboard drivers though, my system would hang up so I had to unistall them (helps if you actually read the readme.file