Windows Vista will not shut down correctly: PC Beep's

PC will not correctly shut down from Windows Vista, instead it emit Beeps (Bu-leep Bu-Leep Bu-Leep noises) from the motherboard or graphics card.   Sound does NOT come from the inbuilt speaker.

This only occurs on shutdown.  I do not use hibernate, low power mode etc.  This is when you select manually the "Shut Down" option.

I have a desktop PC configured as follows:
- Intel Motherboard D845WN
- G Radeon 7500 Ver A Graphics Accelarator Card
- Creative Audigy 2 Soundblaster Card
- Network / LAN card
- Internal Modem card
- 2 Western Digital WD800 Hard Drives (100Gb Approx each)
- Microsoft Vista Business 6.0.6000 Build 6000 Original (not copy)
- Pentium 4 2.4Ghz 2393 Mhz 1 Core 1 Logical Processor
- BIOS Version: Intel Corp HV84510A.86A.0038.P10.0204151346 15/4/2002 (APRIL 2002)
- SM Bios 2.3
- Physical Memory 510MB
- Virtual Memory 1.5GB
- Page File Space 1GB

Two users have the machine, so there are two user logons arranged.

Vista is newly installed 3 weeks ago, and after a number of teething troubles with registration, validation, drivers, etc seems otherwise to be working fine.   It just will not completely shut down.

What happens:
1)  Select Vista option "Shut Down"
2)  Windows presents the shut down screen
3) PC fails last step of shutting turning off (i.e it just hangs at that point with the windows screen showing "windows is shutting down"
5) PC begins to beep endlessly - steady double tone, constant rythym  :  buh-leeeep buh-leeeep   buh-leeeep   etc.
6) You are forced to press reset (5 secs) and then off switch to make it turn off

7) at next turn on - windows registers normal start with no problems at all

8)  This happens over and over again.

Does anyone else have this problem, or a potential solution?

Thanks
David

[A]

Not exactly sure how to reply, however, tech side coming out, can you disable the modem?

There only seems to be 1 other device, that I can think of, other then the pc speaker that can emit "beeps", which is the modem.  Thus, my first recommendation is you disable your modem via the bios (if its onboard), or physically yank it out.

Even if you DO NEED it, try it out to see if that was the problem...might as well narrow it down.   

Ever since I installed Vista when I go to shutdown, the video card starts beeping, a slow steady beep and the computer never full completes the shutdown.

I have had some video driver issues under Vista but so far it's been able to recover and keep running. I have installed the lastest drivers from Nvidia's websight. I noticed the same issues with the Microsoft driver which was installed upon setup and the Nvidia downloaded drivers. I even tried the Beta Nvidia drivers, nothing helped.

It is my understanding a slow steady beep is low voltage, although I'm not positive.  My power supply voltages are good and it is a Cooler Master RS-550-ACLY, 550 Watts, so I know it's not a power issue, but something that is controlling the power to the video card.

I can boot to WinXP and it's as normal as it always was, so...this is only an issue with Vista.

Any ideas out there on how I can resolve this?

Thanks!

PS:  I'm not sure about your video card by mine, the 6800 GT has a small speaker in the corner and that is where my beeps are coming from, without a doubt.


Tyan THUNDER K8W (S2885)
Dual Opteron 256's 2.8 Ghz
Kingston HyperX 2GB (4 x 512MB)
Nvidia 6800 GT Video Card
Western Digial Raptor 74gb x 2 (RAID Stripped Boot Drive)
3ware RAID Controller 9500S-4LP
4 Maxtor 250 GB Drives (RAID Stripped Data Drive)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Belkin USB 2.0 Controller
Koolance Exos Water Cooled

I confirm its not the modem, and not the speaker.  Its definitely the graphics card.  You are right - there is a speaker on the card that emites the beep.

So we have a new problem under Vista that does not appear under Xp - probably because its overloading the graphics cards.

I'll talk to techies I know and see what solutions exist.  I suspect the answer will be replace the card with a newer more powerful one that can handle Vista,

Thanks for the replies

Sorry, have I missed something?

Since when did graphics cards have speakers on them?

My sound card doesn't even have a speaker on it.

DrlSmg wrote:

I'll talk to techies I know and see what solutions exist.  I suspect the answer will be replace the card with a newer more powerful one that can handle Vista,

Thanks for the replies

I'm wondering if it has more to do with the motherboard than the video card. So many shutdown problems have to do with how your motherboard handles ACPI etc.

I see you've set it to actually shut down instead of hybernate (which seems to be the default for Vista). What happens if you set it back to the default setting?

BIOS can  use the internal speaker to pass on error beep codes. The internal speaker for those uninitiated is usually part of the case that you hook to a pinout on the mother board used to power LEDs and the speaker. This is more likely than the Modem issue. You may want to look for bios flash from you motherboard maker. Little less probable is you have hard ware intermittantly failing.

Massif wrote:

Since when did graphics cards have speakers on them?

That's a speaker? (I've seen things that look like that, but always assumed they were something else.) What on earth is it for?

Apart from maybe reporting unusual errors (in which case, wouldn't the manual have a troubleshooting section listing the various beeps it could produce and what they mean.)