Hi;

I got a brand new PC this weekend....the first in 5 years .

It has all of the new energy saving features in it.

I had it custom built from parts at a local computer shop.

It has a Pentium 4 Processor ( 2.53 giga hertz ) that came with its own
motherboard. The motherboard is a

"Intel Desktop Board D845PESV"....this is also the name of the chipset.

I put Mandrake 9 on it. I took that off and then put Knoppix 3.1 on the
hard drive ( much better! ).

Anyway, with both operating systems I could not turn my computer all of
the way off the way I could with Suse 7.2 on my 5 year old Gateway box.

By "turning all of the way off" I mean logging out of everything, stopping
the operating system,.....AND... turning the power off on the computer.

This situation is true with trying to shut the computer down:

- with "shutdown -h now"
- with "shutdown -r now"
- with "halt"
- from the menu on lilo
- from the KDE menu

Is this problem a hardware issue, or a GNU/linux issue?

Any ideas about how I can solve it?

Thanks in advance for any information

Steve