A little off topic but I hope someone can shed some light

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:08 AM, Matt Anderson wrote:
> I have an HP Pavilion Notebook model 6324US.
> The machine will not reboot.  What I mean by this, it shuts off, powers
> back up, but never even gets to the BIOS stuff.
> I have to turn it off.  Close the lid, wait various amounts of time
> before it will start again.
> Now, I'm running 10.04.1 very successfully so there are not a lot of
> time I have to restart, but non the less, it is VERY frustrating!

I'd say hardware. Time to send it off to the repair shop.