On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:19:58PM -0500, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Martin Marconcini wrote: > > Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX > > motherboards. > > I once read it was 5 seconds, but I've never actually timed it myself.
Heh, a nitpickfest. Some bioses have a menu option where you can set this button to power off immediately or to power off if it's held down for a few seconds (otherwise it does a suspend) etc. Award does it, for example. OP should get into bios setup and check -- and/or rtf motherboard m. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration. -- MegaHal
