Did you hold the power button in for 3 seconds? That's how to shutdown a machine aith an ATX power supply if power management doesn't do it for you. Gabe On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0400, Paul Rech wrote: > I installed redhat 7.1 on a machine last weekend and now I can't power > off with the on/off button. > > I had redhat 6.2 on the same machine for at least a year without > trouble. > > Now when I do a shutdown, the on/off button causes the keyboard lights > to flash but nothing else. > > I have to pull the power cord. > > CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing, also. > > The reset button does reboot the machine. > And shutdown -r now, works also. > > I dropped out of x-windows and did the shutdown myself, with same > affect. > > Power management is off in the BIOS. > > I get all the normal shutdown messages: > > halting system > stopping all md devices > power down > > This is a hand built machine with a ASUS dual celeron 500 mobo (forgot > the model). > It reports the 2.4.2-2smp kernel. > I did not rebuild the kernel. > Nothing remarkable in the machine, just a SCSI CDROM and two 30GB IDE's. > > Seems fine other than this one problem, so far. > > And Win98 powers down fine. > Even turns off the machine. > > > Any ideas? > > I'd like to keep redhat on one machine, so switching to Mandrake or > Debian is a last resort. > Those two run fine on all my other boxes, I might add. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "YOU _GAVE_AWAY_ $47 MILLION DOLLARS?? You fat, bloated eediot!" - Ren Hoek in "Stimpy's Big Day" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------