Blue-screen at power-off or restart

[lee-gamer]

I have recently upgraded my PC.
Here are my specs.
Motherboard Asus P5Q-E (new)
ATI HD 4870 (new)
Antec TP3 650w (new)
CPU Pentium D 945 3.4 Ghz (old)
RAM 2GB Corsair XMS2 @ 800Mz (old)
HDs old
Optical Old


My problem is that when I shut-down my system under Windows Vista 32.bit at the point where the system will power off a BSOD appeared and the latter restarted.
I have reinstall Vista when I put all the new parts but I just understand that.
My system is stable its just the power down thing that is worrying me.

It seemed that it doesn't happen when I shut down with Windows XP.
Well I'll check....

So what is the problem in that????

I have recently upgraded the BIOS to the latest update.
I thought that this will fix that but its te same thing.....

 

[chookman]

In Vista are you sure your shutting down or restarting and not going into Hibernate. If you press the power button on the start menu of vista it will hibernate not shutdown. There maybe some issue with ACPI causing this, maybe vista compatibility issues with that board and more specifically the older Pentium chip.

I think you can update ACPI software drivers, this is also controlled in the BIOS, so maybe a bios update as well?

 

[lee-gamer]

I do not use hibernate I only use shutdown or restart the PC when it asks for it.

Didn't get that before with my older mobo a Gigabyte 945 PL- S3.

So it has to do with the ACPI. How can I upgrade this ACPI?

It can't be BIOS as I just upgraded to the latest version last week.

 

[chookman]

if you goto Asus's support page, and your motherboard, under "OTHER" there is one called EPU-Six Engine ... seems to be updated drivers for ACPI

 

[lee-gamer]

I'll to check that.
Under Windows Xp there is no issue as it shut down normally but its only with the Vista thingy that it show a BSOD when the system is in the point of turning off.
When it restarted there is nothing on the screen has to restart the latter

 

[lee-gamer]

The problem is fixed now as I activated ACPI 2.0 in BIOS and now the Computer shut down and restart without BSOD.

Thanks.....

 

[chookman]

good stuff glad you got it.

 

[lee-gamer]

Very glad as well
Thanks for the help!!!