Windows 10 64bit shut down bug

Alex Sinov · March 11, 2016

From time to time, Windows does two things that drive me insane:

It shuts down, but the computer itself remains on
It gets stuck in the "Shutting down" animation and I have to force-shut down it

I have searched for a solution, and I found one that suggested I disable "Fast startup", which I did, to no success.

The other one says

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The problem is actually not related to Windows 10 itself. Your laptop won’t shut down on Windows 10 because of an Intel driver issue!
The bugged driver is the Intel Management Engine Interface (EMI), version 11.x. The driver can be found on Device Manager – System Devices.
The solution, therefore, is to manually downgrade the above driver, waiting for Intel’s fix of this weird bug.

I went to the Intel page and all it lists and it's fairly new are versions of EMI for Intel NUC or compute sticks.
The first one that's for desktop computers is from 2013.

Naturally, I'm kinda fearful to apply a driver that's not for a desktop computer. What do you guys advise me to do?

Alex Sinov · March 13, 2016

Bump

Yongtjunkit · March 13, 2016

On March 11, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Alex Sinov said:

From time to time, Windows does two things that drive me insane:

It shuts down, but the computer itself remains on

It gets stuck in the "Shutting down" animation and I have to force-shut down it

I have searched for a solution, and I found one that suggested I disable "Fast startup", which I did, to no success.

The other one says

I went to the Intel page and all it lists and it's fairly new are versions of EMI for Intel NUC or compute sticks.
The first one that's for desktop computers is from 2013.

Naturally, I'm kinda fearful to apply a driver that's not for a desktop computer. What do you guys advise me to do?

Have you tried disabling fast startup in Windows 10 yet?

Alex Sinov · March 13, 2016

I take it you didn't read the post, then?

Automobili3XF · March 13, 2016

I'm having this very same problem, the difference being my PC has a Xeon E3-1220v3 from the 4th gen era.

But i noticed a pattern, sometimes, when the PC is powered up for not too long (less than a full day) it will turn off normally, but if it stays on for a full day or two, it will do that...