On Tuesday 02 April 2002 07:03 am, Roman Korcek wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I've seen a user having the same problem as me - when shutting down
> the computer, no matter if using shutdown -h now, poweroff or halt
> -p (yeah, haven't tried telinit 0 ;-) the computer goes through the
> usual shutdown process as in MDK8.1 and then at "Power down." it
> just turns off the disks and stops. It should turn off the computer
> but it doesn't.
> I haven't changed a thing since 8.1 and even PnP OS is set to No if
> that matters. There doesn't seem to be a visible difference in the
> scripts in /etc/rc.d/ which are probably responsible for shutdown
> (as far as I figured).
> Since another user has already asked the same question, I wonder,
> has anyone else come across it meanwhile?
> BTW: My computer is an Athlon 750 on an ABIT KA7 mainboard, 128MB
> SDRAM.
One reason could be hardware/firmware. I'm using a Soyo k7vta
pro and after the last bios flash upgrade (for Athlon XP support),
the bios setting "4 seconds or instant off" (I prefer instant off)
quit working. Button must be held in now for 4 seconds, even if
instant off is selected. I also immediately started experiencing the
problem of re-boots even when 'halt' is chosen, both with Mandrake
8.1 & 8.2, and Windoze. For me it's just a minor annoyance. If I
choose halt and wait till the system powers down, then hold in the
button for 4 seconds, the system halts.
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