<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Itay</b> <<a href="mailto:centos@nospammail.net">centos@nospammail.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Sun, 13 May 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:<br><br>> On 5/12/07, Itay <<a href="mailto:centos@nospammail.net">centos@nospammail.net</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> And I can't shutdown it, not even with the power button.
<br>><br>> There's no reset button?<br><br>Not seen any.<br><br>> Have you tried holding the power button down for 6-10 seconds?<br><br>I tried the 3-5 seconds :-)<br>When I get home -- this is my home machine -- I'll try for
<br>longer.<br><br>Thanks,<br>--<br> Itay Furman <<a href="mailto:centos@nospammail.net">centos@nospammail.net</a>><br>--</blockquote><div><br>While this may be a long shot, you may have a hardware issue.<br><br>
Holding the power button for > 5 seconds should take the system<br>down (unless you've done something funky in the BIOS power<br>settings).<br><br>Do you have the latest and greatest BIOS for the motherboard<br>installed? [Also load "Optimal" and/or "Fail-Safe" Defaults (or
<br>what-ever your BIOS calls them, e.g. "Factory Defaults").]<br><br>When you re-boot up, everything may be OK. Or, you may need<br>to enter "Rescue Mode" via CD #1 and (re-)install grub to get a<br>
working system. Or, (depending on where it died), re-install all<br>over again. While in Rescue Mode, check-out your install.log<br>and syslog files for any hints as to what happened. {Usually when<br>you die like this, nothing gets written -- but it may tell where it was
<br>when it did freeze-up.}<br><br>I would also run "memtest" off CD #1 for a couple of hours to<br>make certain that memory is working OK, etc.<br><br>Just some random things to think about ....<br>(I've been down the "frustrating" path before and know your "pain"....)
<br><br> Rich<br><br></div><br></div><br>