Power Wont turn off automatically
 

Ok I have a compaq presario which now it runs linux all the time. I have installed SUSE and Fedora and I get the same problem .. when I need it to turn off )for electricity purposes) When i give it the shutdown it will say something like system halted... ok and it just hangs there ..with Fedora..says hda stopped ... ok
power down...
I have to manually then turn off the machine but im afraid that is doing some damage to the hd's as I have had to replace 2 of them within the last 3 months
So if you have any comments or ideas please let me know
thank you for your time

Turn on the ACPI. You can do that by adding the option acpi=on to the kernel in the /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub.conf depending on your boot manager...

tried it and have the same problem

Manually powering down the PC vs automatically should not damage the hard drives.

What is the model number of your PC?

its a compaq presario 5001 SR series

Try "acpi=off". It worked on my ThinkPad with the same problem with SuSe 10.0.