Halt not working

[Mike Watson]

The older AT boxes won't power off.  You have to have at least an ATX power 
supply and compatible motherboard.

mw

On Sunday 08 February 2004 12:40 pm, Gerrit wrote:
> Alberto Molteni wrote:
> >    When I try to halt the machine I see all the apps
> > shutting down OK (except the mouse services, but I've
> > read that's quite normal) and then... nothing happens!
> > It gets as far as to:
> >
> > Flushing ide devices: hda hdb
> > Power down.
> >
> > or something like that. And then the computer hangs,
> > and I can just press the restart button. Rebooting
> > works (except a few occasional hangs on "Unmounting
> > file systems", but that doesn't bother me much).
> > Is there something wrong with the OS? Or is it
> > something to do with the BIOS or the ATX supply?
>
> You need to configure APM, Advanced Power Management, but some hardware
> is unable to do that.
>
> Gerrit.
>
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