I'd suggest that you check in your BIOS after exiting Windows 95 but before booting into Linux, and verify that APM is as you left it; another user found that W95 was altering his BIOS settings to reflect control panel settings, with the result that he got unexpected power-off's in Linux.
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:57:51AM +0300, virtanen wrote > > Managed to get this damn machine working with debian quite long time. > Even managed to get network working (ethernet). > > '1) Suddently again, while editing a picture using SO 5.1 the power went > off. > > 2) While trying to boot again it gave the normal messages like 'not > cleanly unmounted, check forced' etc. Then again sudden shut-off. This > happened three times while trying to boot. The fourth time worked and it > managed to check the partitions... Now it has been working again. > > 3) > There isn't any overclocked CPU or anything like that. > As far as I know this thing has never happened with this machine with > windows. > I put most bios settings as defaults. APM disabled as well as all shadow > ram settings disabled. Power-button override disabled. > > Still don't know, where the problem is. Just waiting for the next > shut-off... > > In my opinion it (shit) happens, when there is some large swapping going > on. > The machine has got atx-boxand automatic shut-off of the power, when > shutting down windows. > John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
