Did you hold the power button in for 3 seconds?  That's how to shutdown a
machine aith an ATX power supply if power management doesn't do it for you.

Gabe

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0400, Paul Rech wrote:
> I installed redhat 7.1 on a machine last weekend and now I can't power
> off with the on/off button.
> 
> I had redhat 6.2 on the same machine for at least a year without
> trouble.
> 
> Now when I do a shutdown, the on/off button causes the keyboard lights
> to flash but nothing else.
> 
> I have to pull the power cord.
> 
> CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing, also.
> 
> The reset button does reboot the machine.
> And shutdown -r now, works also.
> 
> I dropped out of x-windows and did the shutdown myself, with same
> affect.
> 
> Power management is off in the BIOS.
> 
> I get all the normal shutdown messages:
> 
> halting system
> stopping all md devices
> power down
> 
> This is a hand built machine with a ASUS dual celeron 500 mobo (forgot
> the model).
> It reports the 2.4.2-2smp kernel.
> I did not rebuild the kernel.
> Nothing remarkable in the machine, just a SCSI CDROM and two 30GB IDE's.
> 
> Seems fine other than this one problem, so far.
> 
> And Win98 powers down fine.
> Even turns off the machine.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I'd like to keep redhat on one machine, so switching to Mandrake or
> Debian is a last resort.
> Those two run fine on  all my other boxes, I might add.
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