Reinstalling newest Nvidia drivers and trying the DWM modify.

edit: didnt work!!! wtf

as soon as i pull the explorer.exe profile it shutdown correctly.

btw: i turn off link state power management in the power config

dunno if it makes a difference or not but i imported with the SLI bridge activated @ the time.

I also pressed 4 one time during boot and accidentally triggered ACC function which means core unlocker. Then realizing this turned the function off in bios (core calibration on the chipset page)

Sleep mode

Just to let you know, the sleep mode works and the whole PC shutsdown, all fans just the annoying blinking power LED is on. Maybe i can put my desktop in sleep mode rather than turning it off and just do restart once in a while until a solution arrises.

Let me know what happen after you re install with modified profile.

Thank you again for helping out, really greatful.

thats what I did b4 i found this fix that worked for me. I put it in sleepmode but SSD's dont like sleepmode so i hear

I hope that maybe this might get the attention of ASUS since it ultimately is their fault not NVIDIA. A possible hotfix would be nice to the bargain bin overclockers out there.

AT the very least some folk might get the same results with the SLI modify as I did and others might be apt enough to find a better solution.

From what ive gathered on my system

I put the explorer.exe back to default state in SLI config. Then I went to Win7 manager and fiddled with the shutdown timers.
Voila! got the shutdown proper, I even turned off AC to fully test if it worked.

trying it out

I will try this out but do i have to add these string values? because when i looked into my registry i dont have any of these values in there? Thank you once again.

You could always download Windows 7 Manager and try it from inside the program. Optimizer--->system speed-->shutdown



PS: It failed shutdown after i posted this last night! Got me thinking though, could be a timing issue in the OS vs. BIOS (IRQ)
anyone tried pullin the CMOS battery?

Pulled the Nforce drivers and reinstalled from base seemed to bring me back to where i am... does shutdown though .. so far
Maybe its just easier to buy a decent mobo, Im starting to lean that way!

letting go

I am currently looking for a mobo this weekend. Looking at a am3+ so if ever i decided to upgrade on a newer cpu, my mobo will be ready. I tried almost everything on this one, all the tweaks you provide but the time spend tweaking and making this thing to work properly is not really worth it. I will just make this a single gpu HTPC. Thank you for your help. Good luck. I am looking forward for a new motherboard soon.

Yea for some reason mine shutsdown now but I dont know what I did. I flushed Nforce drivers and used the nvidia newest ones for 750a. Its tricky to do but it might be the where the problem is. I noticed my razorHid doesnt hang at shutdown either anymore.

I was hunting mobos too, It would be sweet to go to the newest boards, Gigabyte has a few I was eyeballing. About 159-179$

new motherboard

Just to let you know that I already pull out my M4N75TD and installed my new Asus M5A99X EVO.

Install smooth, latest driver. Just nice. No problems so far and i hope it stays that way. Thanks for all the help for trying to make the old board work but i had enough but now I am happy

Now more time on playing than tweaking to make it work properly.....

Goodluck and hope you get the new board you have your eyes on.