Vista not shutting down

Well - Regarding your comp: I'd put it back to stock condition, call the maker, and b*tch at their support team long and hard until they fix or replace it... You shouldn't have to deal with that on a store/vendor bought system.

If the vendor won't support you, or if they figure out that you changed components and refuse to... There's an awful lot of potential territory to cover for a BB. I doubt it's the PSU: That's pretty much a succeed/fail component. If it's wrong, normally the computer won't even Post. You say you're able to get the OS going, so I'm inclined to look elsewhere for the trouble. But rechecking that your connections are solid can't hurt.

Given that you say it's a new system, and allowing that you've used MSFT Update for your system and have the latest BIOS and drivers installed for your installed components (you do, right?? If not, then do that *FIRST*). Know that there *are* a couple of major~ish updates for Vista on MSFT's site, and one of them is supposed to handle sleep/resume issues.

if that doesn't work, I'd be inclined to back up my user data. Then get out the BFG9000, reformat, and do a clean re-install. If the system is that new, then you shouldn't have all that much stored on it yet, at least. Plus you'll get rid of all of your vendor's pre-installed crapware. But that's me, and I'll tell you right off the bat that I have little patience for detailed troubleshooting.


Regarding "No Multi-Cores in XP" - Someone's full of sh*t. It may not have the potential to use them as fully as Vista supposedly can, but XP does indeed recognize multiple CPU cores. Perhaps someone was pointing out that most (nearly all, really) of the applications written for PC nowadays do not untilize multiple cores. But that's an application issue, not an Operating System one. I can tell you for a fact that the OS will see all the cores on your CPU.

What will happen is a single app (game, whatever) will only run on a single core. Additional apps can and will run on the additional cores. So your game can utilize one core, and background apps can use the other. Given enough RAM, you can game and compile a video at the same time with a minimum of slowdown. Pretty hard to do that effectively on a single core/chip because both apps have to compete for CPU cycles. Again, from personal experience, XP is plenty intelligent enough to do this reasonably well. Also - This is basically the exact same approach as Vista uses: The OS knows the cores are there, but it's up to the application whether or not it utilizes multiple cores or only runs on one of them. Vista is just more aggressive about reserving and assigning system resources than XP is.

I know that's not much help, but....

Scott

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