[G4] Sawtooth won't shut down, restarts

sr ferenczy srf7425 at rit.edu
Fri Jan 23 11:37:01 PST 2004


check the energy control panel, and make sure "restart after power 
failure" is NOT checked.


sandor

On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Anthony, Jason wrote:

> I have a g4 sawtooth that's been sorta Frankensteined. It has a 800 mhz
> processor out of a Quicksilver, so I get a cache warning at bootup 
> under OS9
> but nothing unusual under OS X. It has been running fine for about 9 
> months,
> but recently decided that it doesn't want to shut down. Here's the 
> sitch:
>
> OS X 10.28
> 1.5 gb ram
> 800 mhz G4, 256k cache
> 80 gb HD on an acard controller
>
> When I choose "shut down", it restarts rather than shutting down. It 
> sleeps
> just fine, but if I want to shut it down I have to hold down the power
> button on the case. I flashed the pram and the problem persists. Is 
> there
> some extension or something in OS X that could be causing this 
> problem. Any
> help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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