Is it normal that my power button doesn't work?
After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a
message saying
"Power down."
However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but
still stays on. The only thing I can then do is a VERY hard reset:
take out the batteries (it's a laptop, compaq contura 400c) and unplug
it. Nothing else responds. This doesn't seem to be the normal way to
shut off a computer. Just wondering if there is a different way...
For the moment, I'm just letting it running all the time, however
there doesn't seem to be a "power saving mode" activated
automatically, and so the screen stays on all day. Besides, it gets
rather hot over time - I'm not quite sure if the fan is adequate for
this. I'm not decided if it's worse for the computer to shut it off
the "HARD" way or keeping it running all day & night.
Help would be apreciated.
