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Process of cleanly stopping the operating system so the system can be turned off

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How to determine if GPU or PSU is causing shut downs?

I've been having consistent (15-20 minutes while under load) PC shutdowns that occurred spontaneously a few days ago. These shutdowns are like someone pulled the plug on my pc and then booted it up ...
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Computer freezes a few moments after startup and wake from sleep (not all the time, but often)

My computer has been freezing a few minutes after start up or wake from sleep, and I have to force shut down and turn it on before my PC will work again. Reliability history shows no error that comes ...
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Shutdown of Debian 12 stops until switching to virtual console 7

I installed Debian 12 (Bookworm) on a laptop (Acer Aspire 5). It is the only OS on the laptop and it was a fresh install. Everything works fine, but when I try do power off the laptop, KDE is closed ...
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Why it shows "User xxx is logged in on sshd“ warning when using shutdown close linux server?

I log a linux server by vscode's ssh method in Win10 (the terminal in vscode is like (base) [myname@localhost ~]$ )and I am not a super user of this server (that means I cannot use su). When the ...
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Windows 10 Auto user login after shutdown

My PC, which I keep ON for days, have a scheduled task to turn OFF (shutdown) a certain day of the week. It then turns on automatically after a few hours through BIOS settings. However, it stays on ...
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systemd: intercepting poweroff, shutdown, reboot and alert us we still have KVM QEMU guest(s) running

I want to interrupt a poweroff or reboot if KVM/QEMU Guests are still running. It should work regardless whether shutdown/reboot is requested from XFCE, or from terminal. I already have a script that ...
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Linux file recovery after unexpected shutdown

Yesterday, I was using a nano file to take important notes relating to university work. I had not saved the file at any point that day, and was actively taking notes throughout the day. Towards the ...
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Turning Fast Startup/Hiberboot off causes PC to stay on after shutdown

Fast Startup has been a cause of issues for our company, so we decided to turn it off by setting HiberbootEnabled to 0 in registry. That has caused one single PC (out of around 50 so far, this is ...
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Windows forces update [duplicate]

I have disabled updates on win 10 by going to run ->services.msc -> windwos updates. Now the trick is, unless you hibernate, shutting down and restarting deletes this setting, and windows update ...
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Laptop - is it safe when using force shutdown (deep shutdown)

My asus laptop (FA507RC) is facing the issue that battery drained even i did a completely shutdown. I found a solution here: solution (hold power button after the laptop shutdown) But i'm not sure ...
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my vps shutdown and error.log (22)Invalid argument: AH00146: could not release mutex accept

Today I set up my VPS with Apache2 and Debian. My VPS has 16 RAM and 4 CPUs. My load is 0.02 to 0.07 with htop. My script is PHP Apache2 I have approximately 5000 visits per day. It happens that I was ...
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Graphics card damage pin

I have RTX 2060 Graphics card. It randomly shutdown some times. When I removed it from motherboard then I realized that it has 2 half damage pin. Damage pin close-up: I notice, my PC shutdown under ...
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Find cause of startup BSOD connected with complete battery discharge

I get the following issue on my Lenovo Yoga C940-15IRH laptop (i7-9750H, Geforce 1650 Max-Q, 16GB RAM, 4K display): I work on battery, and turn the PC off (Shut down) with the battery well over 60% ...
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Not turning off completely the system. its going to the halt mode in Fedora

some time when i want to shutdown the system in fedora, the system not shutdown completely. in this problem screen is off but fan is working Not sure if this is relevant,but there are several errors ...
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Unix/Linux "shutdown": How to prevent wall message and terminal blocking?

I'm making a script that adds a layer of functionality on top of the shutdown command. It's intended to schedule a shutdown a while into the future, and sends out it's own wall message. How do I ...
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Task Scheduler has been set to lock computer after logon. how to disable this? as the computer instantly locks after logon

I created a task schedule following this How to LOCK computer after 'x' amount of time right after log on to lock on logon. but i didnt put a delay. now i cant login at all, as the computer ...
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Tablet Keeps Shutting Down

This has been going on for a couple of weeks.. I have this Windows 8.1 tablet, (32 bit Intel processor, 2G RAM, 64G disk with 720MB free space). It shuts down soon after boot up. As I power up, after ...
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PRevent Windows 10 Shutdown as long as process is still running

I habe a Windows 10 host system that runs a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. I would like to prevent shutdown or logoff on that host system as long as the VM is still running, preferrably ...
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Linux shuts down my pc's lan port so I am unable to use wakeonlan, works with windows

I got the Asus mini pc pn51-s1 with the 5700u cpu. https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/pn-series/mini-pc-pn51-s1/techspec/ I turned on the bios function wake on pcie card which allows me ...
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Task scheduler: On Shutdown? [duplicate]

In the Windows Task Scheduler, there is a trigger called "On startup". However, I'm looking for "On shutdown", but can't find it. Can you help me make a custom trigger equal in ...
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Make power-button force shutdown

I want my PC power-button to shut down Windows immediately. But what it actually does it prompt for action if there are e.g. unsaved changes. How can I force the power button to shut down immediately? ...
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How to distinguish shutdown from reboot

Following this answer I'm using a batch file to copy some files from my C: drive to another drive on shutdown. Due to the amount of the files this may take up to a few minutes. This is not a problem ...
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Once the shutdown button is pressed on windows and it displays shutting down screen, is it possible to cancel the shutdown?

Once the Shutdown button is pressed (mistakenly or intentionally) on Windows (10/11), it displays text "Shutting Down" with circle(s) spinning animation. At this stage, pressing most ...
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PC shutdown suddenly and idk the cause

I have a desktop PC I bought 10 years ago and I use it as a "server", so it's always on. It started to suddenly shutdown few months ago, after few days or weeks being on (last time I powered ...
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Why did my Windows 10 PC shut down (automatically), saying that the battery is low when it showed 72% just seconds before?

Recently, at least twice, my Windows 10 PC shut down automatically, saying that the battery had drained. But it wasn't even a minute before I saw it when it was 72%. I opened a few apps, a heavy code ...
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How to remove shutdown option in start menu but leave it on when selecting CTRL + ALT + DEL

I would like to hide/remove the shutdown option from the start menu but leave it available on CTRL + ALT + DEL.
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PC starts immediately after shutting down

recently my PC starts up again immediately after I shut it down or put it to sleep. This has been happening since I set up Wake on LAN. I'm convinced it's the LAN connection but I don't know how to ...
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Desktop PC restarts continuously after shutdown

My win10 desktop pc runs fine, when I can get to the OS. When I shut down the pc, it immediately restarts, and I'm assuming fails POST, because the nothing appears on screen. Then it shuts off and ...
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Tails OS - Fails to unmount drive when shutting down and then is no longer functional upon reboot

I used BelanaEtcher to burn a Tails OS image onto a USB drive. The first time I boot Tails from the USB stick it works fine. I can create persistent storage and connect to a network. When trying to ...
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Laptop goes to hibernation after 15 minutes of inactivity while plugged in

I have the a laptop, which is running on Windows 10 (22H2) (OS Build: 19045.2546) and I have been facing hibernation issue every 15-20 minutes when left idle, since today morning. This happens when ...
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Windows shutdown not working after cloning disk

I have a recurring issue that prevents windows from being shut down, when the partition is cloned or migrated to another disk. In this situation, clicking on shut down from start menu causes Windows ...
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ASUS N56VM-AB71 laptop suddenly shuts down on battery

Caveat: I know an ASUS N56VM-AB71 is a 10 year old laptop, and it was only mid-range in the first place, but aside from this issue it works remarkably well and I can still even play games on it (no ...
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using nohup even after a complete shutdown or sudo reboot, Possible?

I am using nohup python -u nationalbiblioteket_logs.py --query 0 > log_q0.out & in my Ubuntu 16.04 machine as an administrator to run really time and memory consuming program. I am already ...
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Why such heavy computation is turning off my computer?

I am running this script: import pyspark import random sc = pyspark.SparkContext(appName="Pi") num_samples = 100000000 def inside(p): x, y = random.random(), random.random() ...
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How to prevent Windows from shutting down if a scheduled task is running?

I have a task scheduled through Task Scheduler that can take a while to complete. I would like it to prevent Windows from shutting down (triggering the typical "waiting for program to close" ...
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Acer Swift 1 randomly shuts down when moved (Acer SF114-32)

I have an issue with an Acer Swift 1 laptop. It sometimes switches off when moved. It can even turn off from touching the keyboard. When powering back on, I must hold down the power button and ...
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Run Shutdown, Startup, and Logon/Logoff in Windows 10 Home [closed]

pardon my English, I'm trying to run a bat file on windows shutdown (windows 10 home). I tried everything from editing the registry and adding folders with specific names (shutdown, startup ..) as in ...
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Fans speeding up to max at regular intervals, leading to forced shutdowns

This is happening on a plugged in laptop, I know it's the fans because I have an SSD, at regular intervals the fan will go full throttle for like 15 seconds and then the system shuts down. I've ran ...
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How can UPS turn computer on after it was shut down by power loss?

Suppose computer is connected to UPS and UPS is connected to the computer with USB cable. Some software runs on the computer, which is capable to shut it down gracefully on power loss. Suppose power ...
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Shutdown for X time / USB device stop

Is there a way to shut Windows down for 5 min remotely? I have a conference room where the camera stops working and the onsite tech needs to go unplug the USB to resume operation. Just curious if I ...
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How to troubleshoot random laptop poweroffs?

My Thinkpad x230 shuts off randomly. There's no shutdown sequence or any delay, just click, off. It can run for hours or days just fine, or do it several times in one day. It boots back up immediately ...
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Laptop (Windows OS) shutdowns when on battery after some minutes

I recently changed the battery and my laptop would unexpectedly shut down after some minutes without a warning. That is under a normal usage where I noticed that only the RAM is working over 65% but ...
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Linux - Show unsaved applications before shutting down

When you shut down a macOS system, it asks applications to exit one by one, and the system will not shut down unless all applications agree to exit (aka. there is no unsaved work) or until they are ...
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Samsung laptop (NP300E5C-A02ES) reboot every time I enter BIOS password

Since yesterday I can't start up my computer. When I press the power button on my laptop, Samsung logo appears and then BIOS password input request a password. When I write it and press enter, the ...
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UPS graceful shutdown - how to automatically restart the server when the power is back?

I have a home server (Intel NUC i7) supported by a basic UPS (Eaton Ellipse Pro 650). The UPS is connected to the server via USB and is configured to gracefully shut it down when its power runs off. ...
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Windows shutdown script is not running

I have a simple .bat script that i would like for windows to run when shutting down shutdown script .bat @echo off title Shutdown script curl --silent --output nul --show-error --fail -m 0.5 --digest ...
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ASUS TUF Gaming FX505dt doesn't reliably turn on

I'm facing some issues for a couple of weeks. Sometimes when I try to power on my laptop and press the power button the keyboard backlit turns on and the diplay also turns on but before showing ...
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Can Windows 10 IoT be shutdown in a non-graceful way

I work at an arcade center. And I found that many arcade runs Windows 10 IoT Enterprise like maimai and CHUNITHM. SEGA ALLS system has a graceful shutdown option in staff menu, but it is not really ...
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Arch + KDE taking forever to shutdown from command line

When I shutdown from the plasma GUI the shutdown process is normal speed (~10 seconds). However every time I shutdown from the command line (sudo shutdown now or sudo reboot) it takes quite a long ...
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Windows PC randomly shut down after a specific event occurs

[Problem] Every time UserModePowerService Event(atieclxx.exe related) occurs, My PC will shutdown. And this event occurs very randomly... I wonder the process 'atieclxx.exe' have anything to do with ...
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