Can't kill hung remote CP copy

[jdow]

On 2012/04/14 12:30, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/14/2012 12:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> every computer i know does a hard power-off pressing the power-button
>> for 5 seconds if all other things are failing
>
> This was about ten or twelve years ago. I'm not sure, but I might have even had
> them try that. (Please note that even then, their laptop was so old that they
> needed a screwdriver to remove the battery. Don't know what happened after that,
> as I ended the call and told them to call back after they'd gotten control of
> the computer back.) I do know that when it happened to me at home, it didn't
> matter how long I held down the power button, nothing happened. Only pulling the
> plug worked. Still, it's nice to know that current computers don't have that
> problem.

I was about to comment a little more acerbicly that he's obviously a youngster.
Killing power used to be the only way to shut down a locked up computer with
ANY then available OS on it. I remember those bad old days too well.

{^_-}