Okay. And it would have to be an ATX or newer system for the power button trick to work too. But I have seen a lot of FTBs on Win2K and WinXP that were actually failure to shut down - so the comp. would just hang in a sort of suspended state with just a black screen no matter how many times it was turned off and on, because the normal power button cycle doesn’t really shut off the computer, Windows does. A long hold on the power button would bypass the Windows shutdown and force a cold boot. An older AT wouldn’t be subject to that problem since it doesn’t have the PM support, and a normal power button cycle always forces a cold boot.
The only 2 things that have come on from a cold boot are the power lights on the tower case and the monitor.
It’s an old system. It must have heard me planning on replacing it early next year after harvesting files.
Now ,...didn’t realize that....