Re: Power off Button

[Matthew Bryant Baxa]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:26PM -0700, Dumb wrote:
> I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the
> button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just 
> shuts
> off with no problem.
It very likely could be a BIOS issue.  It sounds like on your machine that the 
BIOS allows you to use the power button as a hot boot button.  Mine was like 
that, but it's usually an option in the BIOS.
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Matthew Baxa
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