From: Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
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aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi wrote:
> You mean they don't even have ATX "soft" power buttons?

Friend just got one as part of an educational package -- and reports
that it doesn't even have a power on/off switch. I'll have to ask him
what it does during bootup, or for that matter how it gets that far
without using an external power strip. (Some of 'em use a special key
for it.) He's a CNA and Win95 type and is still annoyed with it. 

> Have you tried something like this on an ATX computer:
<snip>

This is a reboot util, or ??  (I don't speak ASM at all)
 
> It works for me (under DOS and Win95), although I don't need it because
> my computer has a soft power button in front and a true power switch
>back on the power source (of course I wish the real switch was in front).

Oooh, but why would you want to have control over power on/off? :) 
And people wonder why I go out of my way to keep upgrading what's inside
my wonderful old AT case.

> What do you mean "can't dual-boot"?  That sounds like a software
> problem to me.

BIOS problem, I think (I am really, REALLY starting to hate Award BIOSs;
found another hole in their HD support today, on a semi-recent BIOS that
won't accept a flash). I don't own one of the nasty things myself, so my
exposure was mostly with trying to find a quick solution for a friend's
system so afflicted. Hope I didn't catch anything :)  It doesn't want to
boot into DOS and shutdown from Win98 powers it off. So far nothing
evident to make it behave more rationally. (He's a Netware guru &
DOShead, not a Windows type either, but needed the system for a specific
task and took what was available on short notice)

~REZ~