Vista shutdown blank screen hang

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af22 · #1 Post by **af22** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:53 pm

Hello,

I have a T60 and i installed vista via clean install from bootable dvd and installed all the drivers from lenovo.

I have an issue that occurs half the time when i shut down. Vista will log off and prepare to shut down, then the screen will turn blank and it will just idle. This happens on all forms of shutdown, sleep, and hibernate. The screen just turns blank and it will not power off. (Not every time though, sometimes i works normally)

There was one time, i got an error in window regarding shutdown error: blue screen. But that has only happened once.

Has anyone come across this issue, or know of any way to fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

#2 Post by **RonS** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:32 am

I'm running Vista 64 on a T60p and I've never seen that problem.

If you boot in Safe Mode and shut down, do you see the same problem?

arni · #3 Post by **arni** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:42 am

I would look in event viewer and windows error reporting tool for errors regarding shut down. Without any error message it would be difficult to find out what's actually is causing this troubles.

af22 · #4 Post by **af22** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:43 am

It was the thinkpad power manager driver causing the blank screen.

Also, zone alarm vista has also given me long shutdown times at the "shutting down" display. Removed it and everything runs good again.

Paul Unger · #5 Post by **Paul Unger** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:38 am

af22 wrote:It was the thinkpad power manager driver causing the blank screen.

Also, zone alarm vista has also given me long shutdown times at the "shutting down" display. Removed it and everything runs good again.

By "it" do you mean TP Power Manager or Zone Alarm? Or both? I'm having the same problem with XP (SP2), but only when running on battery. Given your reference to Power Manager I suspect it's my problem, but I'd just like to confirm that it was yours. Thanks!

arni · #6 Post by **arni** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:39 am

I would not suggest running a thrid party firewall on Vista since the build in is good enough. Especially Zone Alarm is causing troubles on Vista.

stylinexpat · #7 Post by **stylinexpat** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:50 pm

Try disabling your CD or DVD drive. I had that problem on my new Desktop at home and we found the problem to be related to a CD/DVD rom drive. Was weird but when we disabled it there were no problems but when we enabled it again the thing swould start to freeze again. May or may not work but just give it a try then you will know if this is a cause of the problem at least..

jgrobertson · #8 Post by **jgrobertson** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:14 am

I had the same thing last evening. I installed the two latest updates from MS just two days ago.

Interesting that someone mentioned the DVD drives. I am having problems buring DVDs. It stalls about half way through and I have to force power off as I can't get out of lthe buring ap (the MS provided stuff).

Vista shutdown blank screen hang

Vista shutdown blank screen hang

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