I shut PC down, monitor blacks out, keyboard lights off. PC still on??

McSweg · 31 May 2017

Basically when I shut down my PC via start > shutdown

It says these programs need to close first. So they close first...

My monitor blacks out (normal) keyboard and mouse lights blackout (normal)

PC still on... It stays on for a good 3 minutes or so and this never happened before.

I ran virus scans via window defender, anti malwarebytes and found nothing.

I don't remember changing any recent bios settings for it to do this. It happened out of no where.

I run the latest windows 10 updates.

ALSO I restarted my PC, did NOT login my account and shutdown the PC. It still took 3 minutes or so to fully shutdown. So there is something wrong here.

Caledon Ken · 31 May 2017

Hi McSweg.

To see if this is tied to Windows Fast Startup processing, the next time you shutdown hold the shift key down and then click shutdown.

Ken

badrobot · 31 May 2017

Run chkdsk /f /r C: There's a chance it's a drive error.

McSweg · 31 May 2017

Caledon Ken said:

Hi McSweg.

To see if this is tied to Windows Fast Startup processing, the next time you shutdown hold the shift key down and then click shutdown.

Ken

Thanks for the reply! When I used shift it had shutdown instantly. I don't really want to hold shift every time I shut my PC off.

McSweg · 31 May 2017

badrobot said:

Run chkdsk /f /r C: There's a chance it's a drive error.

I have a SSD and a HDD how would I check both?
What is /f and what is /r?

badrobot · 31 May 2017

Fix and repair. If you can boot on one of the disk, then you can just do it there by right clicking on the other drive...Properties>>>Tools>>>Error-checking

Caledon Ken · 31 May 2017

If you want to disable Fast Startup here is the tutorial.

Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10

Ken

McSweg · 31 May 2017

Caledon Ken said:

If you want to disable Fast Startup here is the tutorial.

Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10

Ken

I've always had fastboot on. Why is it all of a sudden making my PC take forever to turn off?

Redbatman · 31 May 2017

Fastboot is known to cause issues, even when you shutdown your computer it doesn't fully shutdown it's sort of in a hybrid shutdown. Here is a topic on it.

The Pros and Cons of Windows 10 Mode

Caledon Ken · 01 Jun 2017

I've seen threads where the disk is a problem so badrobot's suggestion of running chkdsk would drive out any concerns there.

If you want, just run chkdsk with no switches (/r or /f) and it will simply scan and report.

Not sure why now. I don't think you mentioned what version of Windows you are on. Not that it should matter but there are definitely issues being driven out with the Creator Update, 1703.