Shutdown not working iDeneb 10.5.7 and GA35-DS3?

[efco]

Hi,

 

after having owned a macbook and a macmini I decided to put up a hackintosh as I never was satisfied with these machines.

 

now, what have i got:

 

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Motherboard, Pentium Core 2 Duo E5300 CPU @ 2.6 Ghz, 2 GB Ram, Geforce 8400 512 MB.

 

I installed iDeneb 10.5.6 and upgraded to 10.5.7

Everything works, even my USB-WLAN Stick. The only thing that makes problems is SHUTDOWN.

 

Telling the PC to shutdown results in a black screen, but the computer still running - but not responding to any key or whatever.

 

Restart and Sleep works fine though.

 

does anybody have an idea what causes the problem, or better have a fix for this?

The issue is annoying me a lot, as otherwise the machine would be the perfect mac.

 

thanks and regards,

efco

[efco]

Hi,

 

after having owned a macbook and a macmini I decided to put up a hackintosh as I never was satisfied with these machines.

 

now, what have i got:

 

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Motherboard, Pentium Core 2 Duo E5300 CPU @ 2.6 Ghz, 2 GB Ram, Geforce 8400 512 MB.

 

I installed iDeneb 10.5.6 and upgraded to 10.5.7

Everything works, even my USB-WLAN Stick. The only thing that makes problems is SHUTDOWN.

 

Telling the PC to shutdown results in a black screen, but the computer still running - but not responding to any key or whatever.

 

Restart and Sleep works fine though.

 

does anybody have an idea what causes the problem, or better have a fix for this?

The issue is annoying me a lot, as otherwise the machine would be the perfect mac.

 

thanks and regards,

efco

 

any suggestions? i am really stuck here.

 

thanks

[Josh Minzner]

I have the exact same problem. I haven't found a solution, but try this.

 

Boot in verbose mode (-v) and then shut down. You'll be able to see what the kernel is doing as the PC shuts down.

If your PC is like mine, it'll probably display a message along the lines of "CPU halted, it is now safe to turn off your computer"

 

In short, your computer is completely shut down in the sense of all hardware functions have stopped. However, for some reason, the kernel doesn't know how to turn the PC off. So, after you see that message, you can turn off the PC by holding down the power button.