Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:04 +0000 From: Jerry Marles <jerry@marles.org> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HP Pavillion does not power off Message-ID: <1259276524.5208.55.camel@lenny.internal> In-Reply-To: <200911241309.30193.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <1257676862.3860.14.camel@lenny.internal> <200911241309.30193.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:09 -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Sunday 08 November 2009 05:41 am, Jerry Marles wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a HP Pavillion desktop PC model g3001.uk. The problem I have
> > is that halt -p does not power it off. The light on the power
> > button goes off but I can hear that it is still running. If I hold
> > down the power button for a few seconds the power can be heard to
> > go off but then it boots right back up again. Windows and Linux can
> > power it off successfully.
>
> I have a hunch that your SSDT is broken. In fact, it looks little
> unusual. Have you tried to update your BIOS? You seem to have two
> year old BIOS and it claims it only complies with ACPI 1.0, which has
> been dead for many years. :-)
>
> BTW, 'holding down power button for a few seconds' performs emergency
> shutdown sequence, which is usually done without ACPI intervention.
>
> Jung-uk Kim
That sounded like a reasonable idea so I checked and found that there is
a more recent bios available. I downloaded it and attempted to install
it and it said that it would not install because I am not running Vista.
I scrapped Vista shortly after buying the PC for obvious reasons. I got
the PC cheap because it only had 512Mb of memory and Vista, Not a good
combination but not a problem to me because I did not intend to use
Vista. So I thought I would restore the PC using the recovery DVD that I
purchased for just these sort of circumstances. I took it out of the
sealed envelope that it came in and tried to boot from it for the first
time. It ran part way through and failed with a hex code but no error
message of any use. I expected it to partition and format my primary
disk but it also did the same to the disk that I had added with Linux
and FreeBSD on which struck me as excessively destructive. So it totally
wiped out my PC and still has not given me Vista to enable me to install
the bios update. Fortunately I have not lost anything of any importance
because I keep all that on a separate FreeBSD server. My point is that
if Windows, Linux and Solaris can work work quite happily on this bios
as it stands then the problemn lies in FreeBSD and that is what I would
like to solve because that it the operating system that I would choose
to run if only it could power off my PC. Otherwise Debian seems like the
best OS for a desktop PC.
Regards
Jerry
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