At 8:35 -0500  on 05/20/99,  in the message "[PCBUILD] "Look, Ma. No
Hands!"" you wrote:
>{SNIP}
>Is there any way of disabling soft-switch? Getting the system
>to power up the "old way"? I'm afraid I find the whole thang
>about software controlling functions originally designed for
>human intervention to be pretty scary.
{SNIP
Have you checked the BIOS? Some have a setting to disable the soft-switch.

HTH

Jim

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