Hello all,
> A well-soak tested PC had virgin broadband installed today, and will
> now restart instead of powering down. The Virgin people had neither
> heard of linux nor firefox, so their standard install process (going
> from this page in the browser http://act2.virginmedia.com/) rebooted
> the machine then fell over quite quickly. Having failed to install
> its software, the broadband connection worked OK anyway, and all was
> OK until trying to shut down. I get the usual progress bar then
> drives and screen power down, immediately being followed by power up
again.
This exact same thing is happening at the moment to one of my expee boxes.
> Tried so far - unplug PC and modem (ambit 256) and ethernet cable,
> reinstalled network manager, metwork manager gnome, power manager
> gnome, switched power management off, disabled power mgt in bios,
> amended /etc/modules and menu.lst per (http://ubuntuforums.
> org/showthread.php?t=623237&page=6).
I did recently enable the boot ROM on the nic, and fiddled with the power
management for setting up WOL.
Not sure if it is related though.
> Any ideas folks, the definite was that it worked fine until virgin
> install was done, tho' worrying that a self-boot can cause this much
chaos.
I'd also really like to know if any other folks have seen this, regardless
of OS.
Cheers - Tony Lambert
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