Vista never gets shut down when I hit restart

[bassgoonist]

When I tell my computer to restart it will get to the "windows is shutting down" screen, but it never gets beyond that. It will sit there for hours (4 hours in once case) when I tell it to restart. This is a huge pain and I have no idea how to fix it. Any suggestions welcome.

[fizban2]

do you have any errors in your event viewer?

[bassgoonist]

I'll look in 2.5 hours when I get off work >.< I tried to remotely reboot today...

[cluberti]

If you boot into safe mode, does it reboot properly from there?

[LeveL]

Might be some conflict with your motherboard's ACPI and Vista.

Then again Vista in itself is just one huge conflict IMO, why even run it, I know of no

single reason apart from DirectX10 games (which are not even out yet anyway).

Check to see if your motherboard is listed:

http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/BrowserNotSupported.html

How absolutely typical that I visit that link in Firefox and I get the following:

Windows Vista Hardware Compatibility List

The Windows Vista Hardware Compatibility List is currently only compatible

with Internet Explorer 6 and above. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Swear to god I am not making that up - yes folks its a hardware compatibility list

that is not compatible with my browser!

Leaves me speechless that kind of stuff, I mean come on, its a hardware compatibility

list, right? Its not compatible with my browser and I cannot view it? I am gonna wake

up in a minute...

[bassgoonist]

Ok, I think its hung processes that's stopping my reboots. Task manager can't even kill the processes....

Anyone know what this means? "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom1 during a paging operation."

I have a samsung sata dvd-rw that I believe is giving that error a lot in event viewer.