If you hold down the power button for ~10 seconds, the machine
should power off. (It's sort of a "hard" power control.)
Scott
>Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:21:35 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Nicholas J. Leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: LOL! I can't turn off my laptop!
>
>This is more humurous than informative.
>
>I was playing with trying to get my blasted PCMCIA 3com 575 to work on my
>Inspiron 3000 without getting "Interrupt posted but not delivered ...". So
>I was loading and unloading the i82365 module with various irq_list
>parameters when my machine locked up.
>
>So Alt-SysRQ didn't produce squat, I hit the power button. Nope. That's
>not working either (its a /soft/ button, I believe).
>
>So here I sit wondering what to do now. I guess I'll have to yank the
>battery out ...... or wait for it to discharge :) But I don't think I've
>ever been in quite this situation before ...
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>
>G'day!
>
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