Date: 07/29/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Good evening. I've been having a problem with my PC shutting down for a few weeks now and it seems to be getting worse as the days go by. I built my PC from scratch back in March and never had any problems until recently.

The computer rarely shut downs. It used to take a few seconds for it to shutdown completely but now it just seems to hang on the "Windows is Shutting Down" screen.

Unfortunately I have to hold the computer's start button down to switch it off completely and then when I boot up the following day I always get the following message as it's booting up:

****Warning: System BOOT Fail ****
Your system last boot fail or POST interrupted.
Please enter setup to load default and reboot again.

Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter Set-up.

Even on the rare occassion when the computer does shut down alright on it's own I still get the above message next time I boot up.

I've searched online for some answers but it seems to be people who overclock who get the same problem. I've not overclocked or tweeked any of my original settings. Does anybody have any ideas what the problem could be?

My PC specs are as follows:

Windows Vista Home Premium
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1093102.html