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From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: emachines power off-on 
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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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