Reboot didn't work 386

Peterpan

I have an sr1625nx with FC4 which has the same mobo and upgraded cpu, memory, and extras, so they should be similar.

When I reboot from Linux, it, well, ... doesn't. It freezes. Or it goes into deep sleep. Have not had time to investigate at all as I'm busy setting up other goodies.

I speculate and suspect that it is a BIOS issue in the way Linux is shutting down. It is not issueing a "proper" soft reboot signal or is leaving something in a state that the BIOS can't properly restart. Suspecting the "aggressive" power management features found on these boards. Unfortunately the BIOS setup program is simplistic, to say the least.

Mine has a ~ 15 Nov intro date and yours is only 27 Nov, so they have not been out in the wild long enough to generate much of a specific trail. I was planning to get in touch with HP when my other setup projects are done this weekend if I don't find a homegrown solution. You might properly guess that I don't have a pressing need to reboot from Linux to XP :-)

But this doesn't help you -- or me -- at the moment. I'll keep an eye out on this thread if someone does provide some clues and I will post whatever I discover -- or don't -- after I have a chance to look into it myself or get something from HP. Shame is, I used to have an inside connection to HP technical support. Alas, no more :-(

For what it's worth for now, you may notice that the unit does not completely power down even when you shutdown from the OS -- look at the green light on the back. I've just been shutting down, count to 5, then hit the case's power button to bring up XP when I do need to switch.

hope to have suitable news in a week or so, prg