System slow to shut down.

[Big Red]

System info:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer powerspec
System Model B818
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz, 2800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. WBIBX10J.86A.0293.2010.0419.1819, 4/19/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.23 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 14.2 GB
Page File Space 7.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

The system came with 4GB and I added 4GB to total 8GB of memory.
Every thing works fine except it takes a lot longer to shut down.
Any idea why?
Thanks for any help.

[wazza300]

Re: System slow to shut down.

what motherboard? you might need to turn off any unused sata ports ect,and turn off floppy drive and drive A if not being used,it will speed up start up and shut down times,set hdd delay to 0 if you have that option in the bios

[Big Red]

Re: System slow to shut down.

Sorry for the slow reply.
My mother board is Intel DP55WB.
I don't have a floppy drive and the start up time is the same as before i added the memory.
Since i added the extra 4GB of memory it takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds
to shut down. Maybe that is normal, i am not really sure.

Thanks for your help.

[UltIm4t3 Luk1]

Re: System slow to shut down.

I think you already know that system has to close any opened tasks. It has set time to wait for apps to close before forcing them to do it. It may not be RAM. Also erasing pagefile will increase shutdown twice or maybe even more. But you can also try to remove 4gb for a while to check it out.