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

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Matt Anderson <9712216800c at gmail.com> 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!
> Any clues would be greatly appreciated!
>

My desktop has the "exact" same problem as you described.  I have to
hit reset twice to make it boot or power it off for a while then start
it up.  I'm not sure what is causing it but I suspect the motherboard
is slowly wearing out on me.

As for your laptop, it could be the same issue.  The motherboard is
going bad, possibly, or there's a issue in the battery.  I can pretty
much rule out software as the cause and I'm sure others will likely
agree.

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