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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