Computer shutting down, the computer said that all night, but didn't shut down.
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
October 1, 2010 8:35am CST
What would cause that? My husband said it has happened before. I didn't know that. I got up this AM and the computer said it was still shutting down. I did a load of laundry, made some no bake cookies, and went back, still said it was shutting down. My husband came down from our bedroom, I asked him when the computer was on last, 11 PM when he went to bed, it was 6:30AM.
I never had that happen on my old desk top computer. This is a lap top. Have you had it happen to you? What did you do to fix it? Since it has a battery, we had to not only disconnect from power, we also had to take the battery out.
6 responses
@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Oct 10
Never had that happen. But it does take forever for it to shut down when it has updates. Not that long. I would shut it down manually and then disconnect your power(battery) for a few seconds, reconnect it and turn it back on and see what happens. Hope it is just a fluke. 
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Oct 10
We pulled everything off it and took the battery out. That's what he said he did last time, too.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Oct 10
The computer is 2 months old and we never have used the batteries. If something is updating,it says, "Updating, please do not shut down. _____________(usually windows) will automatically shut down when finished updating" this just said "shutting down" with the wheel turning and didn't stop.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Oct 10
The batteries on laptop don't last very long. Maybe it is time to get a new one. Hope all is okay now.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
2 Oct 10
I've had this happen before on our desktop. What I do is disconnect the entire power supply and leave it alone for 30 seconds. When I turn everything back on again, the computer is fine. Easier just to turn off the power strip and start over. I do lose my phone connection during this time but it comes right back on. If it continues you might need to have it serviced. Don't have any idea what causes the slowdown in shutting down.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
3 Oct 10
That would work on my old computer, but this one has a battery, too. So we have to pull the battery in our laptop. I think the problem is the battery. Someone above mentioned that we should use it with just the battery because it may be overcharged. We don't have WiFi, so I told my hubbie to go to the library and bring this thing because they have WiFi and we can discharge the battery and recharge it, that might help.
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
3 Oct 10
Oh! writersedge. Somewhere you said you did not have battery. Anyway there is no need to be perturbed. I use laptop too. Elsewhere I gave the hint how to shut down the laptop without removing the battery. No! there is no problem with battery, yet. We use laptops with battery as backup. We have always to link to the main power supply through the adopter meant specifically for that battery. When you shut down the laptop you put off the main supply, so that there is nothing like overcharging. Wifi is only for connecting to the internet, that does not powerup your system. I hope I have been able to explain some basics I know of.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
1 Oct 10
No, when my computer tells me it is shutting down, it does that. I guess my first impulse is to run scans, and to defrag and to do disk clean up. I would look for a virus or trojan. I know this is a fairly new computer. Can you get help from the manufacturer?
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Oct 10
I told my hubbie, since he bought it, he should call Radio Shack and ask them if they know what is going on. We were both busy.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
3 Oct 10
Never had it before. Since this computer is his, I had to wait for him to get up and decide what he wanted to do.
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@hanuma34 (819)
• India
3 Oct 10
Hello! writersedge. I too exprience the similar trouble occasionally. I think it is that the display drivers get jumbled up during use like multitasking or in using large files or programmes. This happens mainly if windows is corrupted for some reason and or is not a genuine copy. Just shut down by cutting off the power on desktop. If it is laptop, remove the battery or keep pressed the power-switch on the laptop for a few seconds until the sytem shuts down. That is the practice of servicemen. good luck.
@Cargoleta (723)
• Spain
1 Oct 10
I've never had that happen, only that it would sometimes take much longer to shut down because Windows was getting updated. I'd also suggest the same as the other people that have already responded to the topic: scan for viruses and other kinds of nasty stuff.
Hopefully you'll manage to fix it!
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Oct 10
Usually it says "Updating windows, please do not shut down." This kept saying shutting down with the little circle spinning.Yes, Maybe we'd better scan, thanks.
@Cargoleta (723)
• Spain
1 Oct 10
Oh I see, maybe it's something going wrong when Windows tries to update, then... In any case, scanning won't hurt indeed.
