On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 12:29, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > That's EXACTLY what happens on my machine - I wrote about it earlier > > (Ghost in the Machine post) > > > > The drives power down but the MB stays up - When I depress the power > > switch and hold it in for several seconds - the machine finally shuts > > off. But the strangest thing is, after several mintues of being > powered > > OFF - the machine springs back to life (by ITSELF!) - I didn't tough > > ANYTHING! > > > > Recent BIOS update per chance? I had exactly the same problem about a > year ago - finally the problem gone after one of BIOS updates. Because > it happened across many kernel versions I do not think it was kernel > problem. >
Nice try - but this machine is almost 4 years old (very old by computer standards) and I have the latest BIOS update (which was last updated version available). There has not been any BIOS updates for this machine for many moons. By the way, how does one identify the BIOS release while under Linux? Is there any way inside a booted Linux to identify the BIOS version information? Cheers, R.Fox
