On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 15:27, Richard Bown wrote: > I've been watching this with interest as I have just the opposite > problem. > Certain actions in win98 running on win4lin cause a halt, only that > shuts it down instantly...now I wonder if this is a ACPI funny as well.
Actually I've seen this one too. But further checking (since I don't run ACPI) showed that win98 was trying to blue screen. Could be your case as well. James > > Someone did say for every action there is an equal and opposite > reaction. > > Richard > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 22:50, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Friday 10 October 2003 04:05 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > shutdown -h now, halt, reboot, shutdown -r now, kill > > > -9 1, kill -KILL 1, init 6, system still going > > > strong!!! > > > Finally, pulled out power plug!! > > > > > > Anyway to troubleshoot this further...?? > > > Second shutdown in 6months....same problem. > > > > If you are using ACPI instead of APM, it is possible that the drivers are not > > quite right for your hardware. ACPI is not well supported on my fairly new > > motherboard. When I first installed it, I got the same behavior that you > > report. I removed ACPI and let it default to using APM and it now shuts down > > fine.
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