On Sun, 13 May 2007, Richard Karhuse wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 May 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Holding the power button for > 5 seconds should take the system
> down (unless you've done something funky in the BIOS power
> settings).
Bart and Richard - thank you for your reply.
I just came back home, and first thing I did was to try again to
shut down the system. It worked (counting s-l-o-w-l-y until 4).
Hurrah!
Next, I will try to follow the various tips Richard has offered
and see what I dig.
> Do you have the latest and greatest BIOS for the motherboard
> installed? [Also load "Optimal" and/or "Fail-Safe" Defaults (or
> what-ever your BIOS calls them, e.g. "Factory Defaults").]
I didn't play with the BIOS when I recieved the box. The only
thing I did before installing centos 5 was to run knoppix 5.
Once. If the BIOS was touched, it must be by the supplier.
I will check that, too.
Thanks again for the tips.
Itay
> When you re-boot up, everything may be OK. Or, you may need
> to enter "Rescue Mode" via CD #1 and (re-)install grub to get a
> working system. Or, (depending on where it died), re-install all
> over again. While in Rescue Mode, check-out your install.log
> and syslog files for any hints as to what happened. {Usually when
> you die like this, nothing gets written -- but it may tell where it was
> when it did freeze-up.}
>
> I would also run "memtest" off CD #1 for a couple of hours to
> make certain that memory is working OK, etc.
>
> Just some random things to think about ....
> (I've been down the "frustrating" path before and know your "pain"....)
>
> Rich
>
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Itay Furman <centos at nospammail.net>
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