Never ending shutdown screen

[Epikas]

Hello Britec, I'm having a really annoying issue, I just got done switching over / upgrading to a SSD and after getting the necessities installed and benchmarking a few times, now my computer is unable to restart by it's self, it will just hang on the shutdown screen most of the time showing the loading circle, and then it will freeze.

I've tried everything in your video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6aBQ-mpTE to no avail though still have the problem, the last thing i remember doing before it wouldn't restart correctly was installing a few drivers from windows update, but don't think that matters now since even in safe mode wont restart/shutdown.
no programs or windows tools say that there is anything wrong on the PC and like I said fresh install new SSD, I'm out of ideas at this point, if anyone can help me out that would be cool.


Specs (just in case)

Gigabyte z68xp-ud3p (Bios F7)
Gskill 16g ddr3
I7 2600K
GTX 660TI
Corsair 750w psu enthusiast series
SSD's: OS on 840 Evo / storage: Corsair Force GT
Nothings been OC

[Timster]

Hello Epikas and welcome to the forums. Just to clarify, did you install a fresh copy of Windows on your SSD? What version of Windows? Are there any other devices plugged into your computer besides mouse, keyboard or printer?

[Epikas]

Yes fresh windows 7 install on my new 840 EVO SSD, I do have a phone and EXT HDD plugged in but already unhooked them and issue persists.

[sonzkitot]

Hi,

Have you tried to check the SSD health?
If the boot utility partition doesnt have a diagnostics checkup, you can use diagnostic software.
If not, try to spend another 30mins to format, if problem remains the same, you know it.

Check your BIOS. SATA = AHCI, Boot option = Legacy.

[Epikas]

Yes, its 100%
Ive ran windows diagnostics nothing wrong
AHCI mode is enabled

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huh wow, ok... I decided to boot up the windows install disk and it doesn't show any partition's when i told it to go into diagnose mode > startup repair. then it does a repair and says: repair complete errors found: there is no valid partition, I'm like yeah ok then how did i install windows in the first place.. and how was it even booting at all if it thinks there was no partition?....so i boot up again normally and test it sure enough it restarts on its own now, but some other strange things have been happening this whole time I was fighting this issue, like game settings not saving and stuff like keyboard profiles not saving from my razer blackwidow upon restart worried I might of damaged this SSD from too many benchmarks to often when i first installed it

[Britec]

Have you tried a clean boot?

[Epikas]

I did try that, disabled anything that wasn't necessary

[Epikas]

Is Over Provisioning a drive that already has windows installed on it bad? could that have cause the Partition to be corrupt like it did?

[Britec]

So when you done a clean boot like I showed in that video, it done the same thing and hanged on shutdown?

[Epikas]

Yea, but once I repaired the partition via booting the windows install disc and choosing start-up repair the infinite shutdown hang went away. Somehow someway the partition got corrupt but it was still booting into windows....it's the weirdest thing.