HP Pavillion does not power off

[Jerry Marles]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:41 +0000, Jerry Marles wrote:
Hello,
> 
> I have a HP Pavillion desktop PC model g3001.uk. The problem I have is
> that halt -p does not power it off. The light on the power button goes
> off but I can hear that it is still running. If I hold down the power
> button for a few seconds the power can be heard to go off but then it
> boots right back up again. Windows and Linux can power it off
> successfully.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jerry Marles
> 

with further investigation I have found that

acpiconf -s 5 results in invalid sleep type (5)

but acpiconf -s 4 powers it off successfully so if I could just make
halt -p do whatever acpiconf -s 4 is doing the problem would be solved.

any advice would be much appreciated.

Regards

Jerry Marles