On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:38:32 -0700 Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0800, Alan Su scribbled... > > as long as you have the kernel option to "power off on shutdown" > > selected, it should do the right thing. if the screen is black, it > > sounds like it has. is the fan still spinning? is the disk still > > spinning? are you sure the green light isn't normal (if you have > > mains power plugged in, perhaps)? > > The green LED is the power indicator, the AC indicator is different. As far > as I can tell things are spinning down, but it seems more like an extreme > sleep mode to me. If I hold the power button for six seconds, it turns off > (which is how it's supposed to turn off). But I know it can be software > controlled, because windoze does it.
>From just this snippet of email, it sounds like my mobo is similar to yours: yes, it is a very deep sleep mode. Maybe there's an easier way to do it, but after <ctrl><alt><delete>, I just hold down the power button once the mobo starts to reboot (before LILO takes over). Since I shut my box down so rarely, it isn't a problem for me... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
