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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:10:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: emachines power off-on 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10109091109050.13031-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org>

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There is a setting in the bios to have it not power down.

There is a surge safety feature that does require a power cord pull and
push to get the power back on.. because after an outage sometimes power
remains flaky for several minutes.

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Gary Kline wrote:

> 
> 
> 	Hopefully someone who is using FBSD on an E-machines box 
> 	can give me some clues re _why_ the power off and on 
> 	is so quirky.  
> 
> 
> 	When I was running SuSE, and did a shutdown -h now, the
> 	emachines box would shut down and turn the system off.  
> 	Pressing the power button again brought things back up.
> 	When I installed FreeBSD a few months ago and did a 
> 	shutdown -h now and power off by hand, trying to reset by hand
> 	did/does nothing.   I have to pull out the power cord and 
> 	reinsert it.  (Obviously, I could put the power switch on
> 	a different power bar and hand-reset that way...)
> 
> 	This is a ``safety'' feature or what?!  Jeez.... :-)
> 
> 	TIA, y'all,
> 
> 	gary
> 
> -- 
>    Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix
> 
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