Re: Power-off on shutdown -h

[Michael Mansour <micoots yahoo com>]

Hi Stephen,

> > On your suggestions I went through the BIOS,
> disabled
> > the PNP OS option (it was enabled), and verified
> the
> > ACPI facilities were enabled.
> > 
> > For ACPI the motherboard (an MSI motherbaord)
> supports
> > S1 and S3 type suspends, I'll have to check the
> manual
> > today and see what the difference between the two
> are.
> > 
> > For APM, I have it on user define, and I think I
> > disabled APM for devices as I don't like the
> powering
> > down of any items within a server to be done.
> Should I
> > fine-tune this somehow?
> 
> I always turn off everything that IT can turn off -
> or suspend...then
> again, as long as the BIOS is setup properly for the
> APM/ACPI, then all
> should be well and good now - have you tried doing a
> "poweroff" from the
> console to see if it properly shuts the box down?

I tried the poweroff to no avail. I'll be trying the
APM stuff from the BIOS tonight, and see if that makes
a difference to the server.

Michael.


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