On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:16:35PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > Fred McKinney wrote: > > This computer was also exhibiting this weird behavior with its previous > > operating system, Windows 98, so obviously this is a hardware problem. > > If it's any help, it's a Compaq Presario. Does anyone have any ideas as > > to what could possibly be happening here? > > It could be that the hardware is too old to support software > poweroff.
To the best of my knowledge, all ATX systems should be able do software power off. This must be an ATX system, otherwise pushing the power button would power off immediately (the 5 second hard reset is ATX). The problem might be the BIOS. Check Compaq/HP's site to see if there is a newer version of the BIOS available. Note that most manufacturer's distribute BIOS updates as MS Windows EXE files. So you will need to boot into a minimal MS Windows environment. You can download floppy images to do that here: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Once you have the bootdisk, copy the BIOS update .exe to it, boot off it, then run the BIOS update exe. -- David Dooling _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
