[iyonix-support] Re: First view of ROM 5.13

In article <6bf8f6ba4e.james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Peacock
<j-peacock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gary Locock wrote:

> > In article <076456ba4e.wra1th@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gavin Wraith
> >    <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Another thing with 5.13. Twice now I have found after selecting Shutdown
> >> from the Task menu that instead of shutting down the machine beeps, the
> >> screen goes blank but the hard disc continues to spin. This never
> >> happened with 5.12.
> > 
> > Oh yes it does! And on every previous version of RO5 that I can recall.
> > It is intermittent, and possibly related to !HID but I've never pinned it
> > down successfully.

[Snip]

> If it ends with a blank screen and a * prompt, I've usually done the
> following to shutdown the machine relatively cleanly:

>   *Load Run:PowerOff 8000
>   *ShutDown
>   *Go 8000

Note Gavin Wraith's observation "instead of shutting down the machine beeps".
IME this is diagnostic for the particular fault he is reporting.

If you get a star prompt instead of a shutdown, it is because you have
inadvertently done shift-F12 instead of ctrl-shift-F12, or using the menu,
you have hit 'Exit desktop' instead of 'Shutdown'.  Not the same thing at all.

Gary

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