switching off a HP Pavilion k834.de

[Jörg Grimm]

Hello everybody,

I have a problem with a Pavilion k834 Desktop PC running Suse Linux 9.3 in a 64 bit Version.

The System works very fast and prperly - but switching off the system makes problems....

The system is going down but i can't start it again (system hangs running the system van maximum) - To reboot the system I have to disconnect it from power. I guess it is a problem with the acpi.

Any answeres??

Thank you

Joerg

[Stuart Browne]

Not really a solution, but most HP systems allow you to press/hold the power-button for 10s or so to do a similar thing.

As for possible apci problems.. have you tried the bootstring 'noapci' ?

[Gopi Sekar]

What do you mean by machine hanging? If the system is not equipped with ACPI or if the SUSE does not have ACPI support then whenever you powerdown the machine, it will come and halt at the console with 'Power Down' message.

This means that system is actually down, but kernel could not power off the machine because it is not able to give ACPI power off request.

Please let us know is this the case? if so, the solution to this is most probably that ACPI is turned off in BIOS of Pavilion k834. You may have to turn it on to get it working.

Regards,
Gopi

[Jörg Grimm]

Hi - the system has ACPI support and acpi is switched on.

Suse support gave me the "Tip" to boot with the options "acpi=off" or "PCI=noacpi" or "acpi=oldboot" or "acpi=force". None of the boot options solved the problem.

With acpi=oldboot or acpi=force there was no change. pci=noacpi and acpi=off made the system hanging while booting the sata driver :(

Joerg