K8N Neo4 Shutdown/restart Problem

Pleaz help!
my problem is that the computer freezes whenever I try to shut it down! When I press the shutdown button or the Restart button, it goes fine until the screen windows shutting down screen and just sits there. Like its freezing up on this screen.
then I have to just kill the power to the machine to shut it down and then re-power.
When I start it back up, it shows no kind of errors or anything, just boots up normally and runs ok. I have booted up in the "safe mode"
and it still freezes up on the same screen
I'm using the latest drivers for everything
Has anyone had this problem and know why its doing this?
MSI KN8 NEO 4 Platinum
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 processor 3200+
2x 512MB PC3200 400MHz Kingston
MSI NX 6200 128MB DDR (PCI)
Maxtor 80gb 6y080P0(IDE)
Creative CD-RW RW8435E
Lite-on LTR-522465
Windows XP Pro SP2
X-dreamer II case

You have a service/program that is running in the background, and that hangs when it is trying to shut down. It is not dangerous, but it is inconvenient. The few times I have encountered it, it has gone away eventually, or I have found which program that it is that causes it. I do not know if it helps, but it might be a good idea to check your event log, to see if it has been logged.
I can otherwise recommend a program called Switch Off, which can shut down your computer. It has the ability to "force" programs and services to shut down instead of hanging the computer. It also has several modes of operation, some which are timers to allow your computer to shut down after a certain time or at a certain specific time.
It might also be a good idea to disable whatever program you run at startup, so that they do not start, and see if it shuts down properly when they are not running in the background.

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