On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:18:09AM +0000, Nick Battle wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
If you hold the power button in for a few seconds it should power off anyway. Oh really ? lol... Doesn't help much if you have auto stop and start mechanisms in your system for when you are on the other side of town, not unless you have *very* long arms...
True! But when this problem happened to me, just pressing the power button briefly didn't power down. I didn't want to switch off at the wall - though it probably would have been safe. I didn't know that holding the power button in for a few seconds would do the trick, so I mentioned it in case Dominic didn't know either.
On some bios'es there is an option about this, on this computer for example you can set it so that if you hit the atx power button for less than 4 seconds it can cause a system suspend, for more than 4 it turns the power off...or you can just set it so that just saying "boo!" loudly will power it off as well.. -- Regards Cliff