On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
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Anyone venture an explanation?
You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you
can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension
nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or
any key?
It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this?
I "always" during the last couple of months power off with 'acpitool
-S'.
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-S suspend (sleep state S4), if supported
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Then you are not powering off the computer but hibernating.
BIOS Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled. Then power is turned off on
the system.
Okay.
Turn power back on, hit the space bar, and the system comes back up.
Grub-legacy shows its menu and I select the partition that was running
and that has 'resume=LABEL=6Y080P0.05'. That loads everything from the
swap space and resumes.
It looks like you are getting into hibernation instead of performing a
full power off but anyway, AFAIK restoring from hibernation can be only
done from power button, not from keyboard :-?
I have not tried other keys, but next time around I will.
Yes, and also try to completely shutdown the machine and then press the
space bar to see what happens. Computer should not start.
I have not asked Asus because I am afraid they will ask what version
windows I have installed.
Well, this is a BIOS issue more that a OS problem.
This mobo has a weird feature: you can select 'express gate' and get
access to a linux O/S that gets you access to "the internet and skype".
I have it disabled and never have tried that.
I fear all of those new settings... I also prefer to keep the old-and-
well-known options for the BIOS that have been working since decades and
keep the rest disabled :-}