On Wednesday 31 October 2001 00:18, 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.
-nick
Hey Nick, At first I had a similiar problem to the one you described above -- if I briefly pressed the power button, my system would not shut off. I poked around in the BIOS and found an option which was labeled something like "WAIT 4 SECONDS FOR POWERDOWN". I disabled this setting and now my system will shutdown when press the power button. Cheers, Dominic