Computer won't restart if turn off!

[Ashley Benton]

Hi, thank you for your answer
You told me to try booting Ubuntu with "acpi=off noapic " appended to the
boot parameters but I have no idea how to do that. Could you tell me how I
would do that please?
Thank you
Megan

On 9/20/07, Darren Mansell <darren.mansell at opengi.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 08:11 -0400, Ashley Benton wrote:
> > Hi, and thank you for your answer.
> > I will have a look in the computer to see if the support of the
> > motherboard seems ok, and try to start the computer with the original
> > DVD next time I shut it off. If none works, I'll unplug everything and
> > plug it back one by one to see if it comes from another part of hard
> > ware. I have also be told to change the battery so I'll try it too.
> > I'll let you know how that goes as soon as it is done. (It is possible
> > that I don't do it before a month or so except if the computer is shut
> > off by accident)
> > Thank you for your answer
> > Megan
>
> It sounds to me more like an ACPI issue. Can you try booting Ubuntu with
> "acpi=off noapic " appended to the boot parameters then try it?
>
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