shutting down for 7 plus hrs?

last night i shut my pc down and went to bed. this morning i woke to find my pc was still shutting down?

so had be on the shutting down screen for 7hrs?

any info advice greatly apreciated

thanks

have just performed clean install of os installed drivs and all windows updates ..

have been having some other boot up problems that could be related. just thought id mentionin case something in one of the other posts could help in diagnosis of my problem

thanks again

Welcome
Seems like your computer froze. There is only one thing to do and that is to press the shut down button for a few seconds and it should shut down.
We do not want this to happen again, since shutting down in this fashion can cause minor hard drive problems. The problem that it will cause can normally be corrected with a chkdsk, which is included with your operating system. The problem is the number of times that the problem can be fixed is limited. If the freeze happens again, we must work together to try and find the cause.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-check-disk-chkdsk.html

yes i think that is what happened.. so i did exactly that

so how do i / we determine the problem and attempt a fix?

These things happen to everyone on an isolated basis. If it happens again, we start with event viewer and go from there.

ok thanks.
as its not a good thing (does damage to drive etc)
would it not be better to use event viewer now rather than let it happen again?

Its your computer and you can try to track it down now, but it can be a long process of hit and miss. I think that it was just an isolated case. What you can do to try and stop it from happening, before shut down log our and/or shut down anything running IE, software etc.
Run chkdsk, what does it show?

ok it is updating at the mo. 15 more updates. il let them finish see how things are after

then try running chkdsk..

also dont know if it may be an issue i nstalled drivers yesterday when i was installing the nvidia ones there was an option to use or not. the nvidie storage controller driver (wich i think replaces the windows one) could that be a possible cause?

Ah, i bet you you shutdown as it was doing part of the update process, so it barfed.

It could be an issue with he nvidia stuff, but repeated shutdown issues are needed to really know

i restarted as it told me to to configure the updates. but did not shut down while it was doing something important. like updating

as for the possibility of invidia being a problem could i not find out thru event viewer and post my findings in screen shots for you to view?

thanks for help

screens

i dont know if they help if not i can do more if there is something in particular to look for i will look for that one and post it

thanks again for help

here are some more relating to nvidia and some are critical?

thanks again for your help

i just checked start up items could this be anything to do with problem?
see screen shot

and these are programs installed in case there is a problem with clashes etc
just trying to give as much info as possible

turn off the forceware app, and see how it goes.

i am just in the process of uninstalling all nvidia drivers and then re-installing without the nforce box checked however in the device manager under storage controller n force is still there ?

Yes, your mobo has Nvidia chipset on it, so it needs to have the drivers.

I'm thinking it was a bad install, so I would uninstall and try again.

bad install of the drivers? or os?

thanks

Sorry, driver update.