On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:06:24PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > I've given up on this project for a while, but here's some more info: > Flashed with the latest BIOS, but pretty much everything is the same in > the setup menu (gee, I like being able to change bios options when the > machine is already running an OS!). I booted winbloze, and found out it > doesn't even disable the power button (good chance to run scandisk, > anyway :) > > So I think I will ask Dell for some help and/or for them to add yet > another thing to the BIOS. > > Incidentally - when the machine hard-crashes you need to press the power > button for 4 seconds to turn it off. So somewhere, it is asking the OS for > permission to turn off, and doesn't get through to it when it is crashed.
No, it isn't asking the OS. My computer has a BIOS option for making the "power button" switch be either suspend or soft-off. When it's set to be suspend, it generates an APM event when you push it. In this mode, you can also hold it down for 4 seconds to turn the computer off, accomplishing the same thing that pressing it at all does in soft-off mode. > I'm slightly confuzzled by this.... Try reading the bios manual, if you have a copy of it. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
