Ok now I feel really thick - I still can not get the machine to power down.
I have tried changing the available power settings in the bios set-up utility but no success in getting the computer to power down. Everything displays as shutting down OK, then the following is displayed: Halting system... md: stopping all md devices. md: md0 switched to read-only mode. Power down And nothing - it simply stops at this point without having powered down. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del breifly displays "md: stopping all md devices." again before doing the reboot. I can turn the power off by pressing the power button. It is running Mandrake10CE. I have tried it with Knoppix 3.3 and the same thing happens. The motherboard is an Asrock K7VM4. The bios setup utilty is AMIBIOS setup utility - version 3.31a. I have downloaded and installed the latest bios. The only noticeable change being that there is now a setting for AGP skew, and V-Link speed. The options under the Power menu are: Suspend to Ram (Disabled/Auto) Repost Video on STR Resume (Disabled/Enabled) Restore on AC/Power Loss (Power Off/ Power On) Ring-In Power On (Disabled/Enabled) PCI Devices Power On (Disabled/Enabled) PS/2 Keyboard Power On (Disabled/Any Key) RTC Alarm Power On (Disabled/Enabled) Then 4 settings for RTC Alarm, these being: Date, Hour, Minute, Second Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ian Laurenson On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 11:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: > > > On an ATX power supply, Power Management must be enabled in the bios > > settings. If power management is disabled the power supply will not shut > > down automatically. > > I have not seen a bios with an explicit setting for automatic shutdown. > It usually falls under the setting mentioned above, and is not > necessarily documented.
