Windows 10: I shut PC down, monitor blacks out, keyboard lights off. PC still on??

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.

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desktop pc not shutting down.

My desktop pc running latest build of win 10 has suddenly stopped shutting down. When I click on shut down it starts to shut down, monitor goes off, sound system and keyboard light goes off. But pc light and mouse is still on. Moving the mouse and pressing
power button does nothing. It remains like that until I cut the power. I did restart once....that time it shut down properly then restarted perfectly. Then shut down again, it won't.

 

My HP Elitebook 840 has problems when shutting down.

Yes I have held down the power button for more than 6 seconds. The only way for me to get the fan to stop is to take out the battery. The PC appears to be shut down, but the fan is running and the two buttons on the right side above my keyboard are lit.
Also there are two corresponding lights on the front left of the PC (below the keyboard) that stay lit. So I guess it the PC still is running, with the Power Button shut down (not lit).

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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?

 

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

 

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.

 

I have multiple drives on my PCs and this issue happens to me often. Chkdsk always fix it for me.