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Hi folks,

I have just built a new system (specs below) and I've hit a snag.

Since I put it together, the system will not shut down when it should, so I decided to get chipset drivers and BIOS up to date. The motherboard came with BIOS 1005 installed so I installed the v6.65 drivers so that I could flash the BIOS up to 1007.
Since I did that, the system will load Windows and then somewhere between 5 and 30 seconds later it will BSOD with 0x000000FC. When I boot into safe mode it doesn't crash any more, so I can only assume it's the drivers at fault.

Has anyone else encountered an error of this nature? I imagine I'm going to have flash the BIOS to an earlier level and reinstall an earlier set of chipset drivers. Oh, and it still doesn't turn off when I tell it to.

Any thoughts or comments welcome!

Windows XP Pro (32)
AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
XFX 7800GTX
2x GeiL PC3200 512mb (golden dragon pair)
2x WD Raptor 74Gb (RAID0)

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A reliable way to approach this kind of intermittent boot/shutdown trouble is to treat it as a diagnostic problem, not a guess-and-flash exercise. was right to flag motherboard/driver interactions, and ’s firmware suggestion is sensible — but start by collecting evidence so any firmware or driver change is targeted and reversible.

First, capture what Windows can tell you: enable crash dumps, check the System/Application logs in Event Viewer, and save any minidump files for analysis rather than guessing. Learn how to examine dumps before deciding to flash firmware or swap hardware: .

Second, isolate third-party code. Perform a clean boot (disable non-Microsoft services/startup items) and re-test. Use Driver Verifier to stress-test drivers so a faulty driver fails in a controlled way and points to the offending module: Using Driver Verifier. Reintroduce drivers one at a time and keep notes of versions so you can roll back cleanly.

For shutdown hangs, check power-management settings in Device Manager and the BIOS ACPI options, and read firmware release notes before updating — do not flash blindly. Verify storage and chipset drivers from the board vendor where possible, and run a full memory test if crashes persist (memory errors can produce misleading crash behavior): https://www.memtest.org/.

If a dump or Driver Verifier names a vendor driver, obtain the specific, stable driver from that vendor and document the working set. Keep a recovery plan (System Restore image, backup) before any BIOS flash so changes can be undone without a long outage.

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Member Avatar for JANINE

could be a motherboard driver fault.


Hi folks,

I have just built a new system (specs below) and I've hit a snag.

Since I put it together, the system will not shut down when it should, so I decided to get chipset drivers and BIOS up to date. The motherboard came with BIOS 1005 installed so I installed the v6.65 drivers so that I could flash the BIOS up to 1007.
Since I did that, the system will load Windows and then somewhere between 5 and 30 seconds later it will BSOD with 0x000000FC. When I boot into safe mode it doesn't crash any more, so I can only assume it's the drivers at fault.

Has anyone else encountered an error of this nature? I imagine I'm going to have flash the BIOS to an earlier level and reinstall an earlier set of chipset drivers. Oh, and it still doesn't turn off when I tell it to.

Any thoughts or comments welcome!

Windows XP Pro (32)
AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
XFX 7800GTX
2x GeiL PC3200 512mb (golden dragon pair)
2x WD Raptor 74Gb (RAID0)

Member Avatar for Vormulac

could be a motherboard driver fault.

By way of an update, I have today uninstalled/manually-removed all trace of nVidia software/drivers on the system (again) and with plenty of reboots reinstalled the 6.65 drivers again, piecemeal. Fingers crossed, so far it seems to be working. And frighteningly enough, when I shut it down this evening it actually turned off properly.

By the way, what I meant (and didn't explain very well) about the powering down issue was that when I clicked shutdown or restart it would close Windows, bring up the 'saving your settings' message screen, then the next message which I think is something like 'Windows is now shutting down' at which point it would simply freeze. Still, as I said, it seems to be working now somehow, so hopefully it's sorted now. Very stange.

Thank you for your response though! :)

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ur right... it does seem strange but at least it seems to be ok now. let me know if you have any more errors come up.

Member Avatar for Kynzic

Another thought... after talking to a tech support rep at ASUS, they said something to me about updating the BIOS to the latest (1009 i think)... I am not sure if it will help but I know that since I did, my computer was working well...
Currently having other recurring issues with MOBO (on second new board) at the moment...

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