Yes that does help and if it is only that maybe that will be easier to fix that a wrong setting or anything else. Thank you for your answer Megan <div>On 9/19/07, Leonard Chatagnier <<a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello Megan, I'm not one of the experts on the list and am usually asking for help but, your problem sounds like a faulty electronic on/off switch to me. I've had that problem to occur on two different machines, one in particular a Dell Dimensions XPS T450 with an on/off and reset switches(push buttons). You may want to have a computer repair shop check it out. Hope it helps, Len --- Ashley Benton <<a href="mailto:meggalen@gmail.com"> meggalen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, thank you for your quick answer. > The message error was 0 after 12 pass. So I did esc > and the computer is back > on. Where can I look to know why the computer won't > start if turn off? Each > time I turn it off, when I push the button to turn > it back on there is no > power and I have to unplug to be able to have the > power back. What could > cause this to happen? One of the setting I have done > when I installed Ubuntu > or something wrong in the computer? As long as I had > been on Windows I had > no problem, I put Ubuntu and had changed my power > supply twice and had to > put a new Hard drive to be able to start my > computer. I love Ubuntu and try > to avoid Windows but I need to know that I will be > able to turn it back on > if I need to install something in it or if there is > a storm! > Can you help me with that? > Thank you > Megan > > > On 9/18/07, Ari Torhamo <<a href="mailto:ari.torhamo@saunalahti.fi">ari.torhamo@saunalahti.fi</a>> > wrote: > > > > > > On ti, 2007-09-18 at 14:38 -0400, megan wrote: > > > Thank you for your answer but how do I check it > with memtest86? I tried > > > in the terminal it didn't do anything. Could you > be more explicit > > > please. I am completely new to Ubuntu and have > still some trouble to > > > understand when it's not precise enough > > > Thank you > > > Megan > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Just put your Ubuntu CD into the optical drive of > your computer and > > restart the machine. It will now boot from the CD > (assuming your BIOS is > > set so - if not, come back for more advice) and > show a start menu, which > > has an option "memtest" or "memory test" (or > something close to that). > > When you select that, Memtest will start > automatically. You will then > > see something like this on your screen: > > > > <a href="http://www.memtest.org/pics/i875-big.gif"> http://www.memtest.org/pics/i875-big.gif</a> > > > > You don't have to do anything but just let the > program do the testing. > > The test procedure includes several tests and will > take several hours if > > not interrupted. You may leave the computer alone > at will to do the > > testing. You can stop the test at any time by > pressing "Esc" or reseting > > the computer. When all tests are done, the program > will start from the > > beginning. So eventually you will want to stop it > :-) > > > > When all the tests are passed once, the number > zero in the "Pass" column > > will change to one. The next column to the right > tells the amount of > > errors found. If it says zero, no errors were > found. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Ari Torhamo > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-users mailing list > > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> > > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > Leonard Chatagnier <a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>