
Look for any signs of problems loading device drivers. On reboot, search for the ntbtlog.txt file in C:Windows folder. From the Menu, move the cursor down to Enable Boot Logging and hit Enter. I’m going to see if maybe new drivers for my bios and cpu might somehow do something, but I’m damn near baffled by the elusiveness of the problem. 3 Disable Hybrid Shutdown You may disable Hybrid Shutdown and see if it helps. I have also gone into the power settings to max out High Performance energy plans wherever possible. Enter '/s' into the Arguments blank, click next. Input C:WindowsSystem32shutdown.exe in the blank before the Browse button. My power source is a BeQuiet with ample wattage for my layout so I do not think it is an issue of not having enough power. While using the Windows 7 Home Premium backup at a scheduled date and time. Perhaps I pinned out the control panel wrong, but the reset and power buttons work fine and holding down the power button on the computer succeeds in forcing it off for good. My only issue is that the computer restarts in the midst of shutting down. You can choose: Do nothing, Sleep, Shut down, and Turn off the display. Use the When I press the power button dropdown to make your change. I’m beginning to think that there may be some sort of hardware issue because i’ve just about exhausted all the software approaches I can think of, and that I could find online. Press Windows key + I to open Settings and navigate to System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Choose what the power buttons do. All I have on this thing other than win10 home is vlc media player, geforce experience, and google chrome.

I’m building a rig for a coworker, i’ve reduced things down to a clean boot, disabled fast startup, disabled automatically resetting on a crash, updated most of the drivers for windows, network card, checked to see if the network card had the check-able box to allow it to reset the system (it does not have that option).
