fc3 fails to stop on shut down

[Nicu Buculei]

Steve Thacker wrote:
> Some of my computers auto shutdown the power, some don't--some even 
> identical to each other---look in the CMOS setup to see how the computer 
> is configured (if availible there) to handle the shutdown button--i.e. 
> shutdown or suspend to disk or delay ---etc.........steve

i have the same problem on two different computers, both with AMD CPUs, 
one with VIA (KT266) chipset and another with SiS (don't remember now 
the model).
the computers will shut down correctly only when ACPI is disabled in BIOS.

-- 
nicu