For the last several years, the power button has a built-in time delay for
turning off the computer.  Generally it requires one to press the button for
about 4-5 seconds and the power will go off.  As far as I know, there is no
reset button as there used to be.
God's blessings,
Ken

"Rejoice !" wrote:

> I have a friend that has a new HP computer.  800MGH, 30 GB Hard drive, 128MB
> RAM, she just purchased it last weekend.  It's running Windows ME.  I was
> helping her this morning with Paint Shop Pro and the computer froze.
> CTRL-ALT-Delete wouldn't work, nothing responded I tried everything and then
> when I went to reset it there was no reset button on the Hard drive.  I
> looked everywhere, searched the keyboard, nothing.  She said the same thing
> happened to her earlier and she had to unplug the computer and plug it back
> in and it rebooted.
>
> Have any of you ever heard of this on a brand new computer????  I also had
> to unplug it and plug it back in and it was just like using a reset button.
> There is no way to even turn the computer off from the HD.  Do I tell her to
> just keep on unplugging it when it freezes???
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> God's Blessings
> Linda Aldridge
>
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