Re: Power off Button

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Subject: Re: Power off Button
From: Matthew Bryant Baxa <mbb1810@ksu.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:05:20 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 20010405000520.A14809@ksu.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] mJ91sC.A.wk.ZQ_y6@murphy>; from grakkeratsofthomedotnet@ksu.edu on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:26PM -0700
References: <[🔎] mJ91sC.A.wk.ZQ_y6@murphy>

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:26PM -0700, Dumb wrote:
> I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the
> button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just shuts
> off with no problem.
It very likely could be a BIOS issue.  It sounds like on your machine that the BIOS allows you to use the power button as a hot boot button.  Mine was like that, but it's usually an option in the BIOS.
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