I've been watching this with interest as I have just the opposite
problem.
Certain actions in win98 running on win4lin cause a halt, only that
shuts it down instantly...now I wonder if this is a ACPI funny as well.

Someone did say for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction.

Richard
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 22:50, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2003 04:05 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > shutdown -h now, halt, reboot, shutdown -r now, kill
> > -9 1, kill -KILL 1, init 6, system still going
> > strong!!!
> > Finally, pulled out power plug!!
> >
> > Anyway to troubleshoot this further...??
> > Second shutdown in 6months....same problem.
> 
> If you are using ACPI instead of APM, it is possible that the drivers are not 
> quite right for your hardware.  ACPI is not well supported on my fairly new 
> motherboard.  When I first installed it, I got the same behavior that you 
> report.  I removed ACPI and let it default to using APM and it now shuts down 
> fine.
-- 
Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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