I don’t know if something was enabled or disabled during a kernel update, but I can’t completely shut down the computer. I installed Windows with another drive (yes, I know it’s sacrilege) and tested it. The command to restart and shut down works without problems. I’ve tried with Manjaro, Cachy, Fe…

[image] Miguel1964: But this is beyond me. Okay, fair enough, - you have a couple of choices. :slight_smile: Find someone locally who is technical to support you. 2. At the very least, see if there’s a more recent update for your UEFI, which is from July of 2019. If you run that command as …

Windows uses Hybrid Boot, so if you shut down Windows, and then turn back on and boot into Linux, Windows is holding your hardware resources hostage. You will see screwy things running both, even on separate drives. Some hardware information would be useful, and look in your UEFI settings for ErP p…

uname -a Linux 2689-V2 6.19.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:08 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux [miguel@2689-V2 ~]$ And could you tell me what information you need from my configuration or setup? By the way, should I uninstall Windows now? Thanks. :PD I know there are commands in …

There is also a bug in Winblows 11, that has a patch released now, in which the PC does not shutdown and/or it shuts down and then randomly restarts, usually within 30 seconds to a minute but we’ve had laptops wake up while users were sleeping that were NOT plugged in and the battery was dead in the…

The inimitable @UncleSpellbinder drew up a great Inxi resource here : [image] INXI / SYSTEM LOGS Cheat Sheet Linux lounge I made a personal cheat sheet for system logs, inxi output, and so forth to keep in my documents folder. Feel free to suggest anything el…

Thanks for the replies, but as far as I can see, I’ve only installed Windows 10. I wouldn’t touch Windows 11 for anything. Like I said, the computer hasn’t been touched since yesterday, and… there’s no way to turn it off, and I don’t want to mess with or rewrite anything in the BIOS since I’ve check…

[miguel@2689-V2 ~]$ inxi -Fzx System: Kernel: 6.19.6-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.2 Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: Intel X79 serial: Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends v: 4.6.5 date: 07/1…

Thanks, nothing obvious there, if you’re not willing to make any changes there’s not a huge amount more I can suggest. But can you output via sudo Inxi -Maz Which will give you the firmware specs of your motherboard and potentially any power savings options. You would need to check ErP is set to S…

[root@2689-V2 ~]# inxi -Maz Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: Intel X79 serial: N/A uuid: 03000200-0400-0500-0006-000700080009 Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends v: 4.6.5 date: 07/17/2019 [root@2689-V2 ~]# I know that “sleep” or “suspend” mode doesn’t work on this motherboard, but…

Thanks everyone, I’ll try updating the BIOS; if that doesn’t work, I’ll have to buy another one, an X99. Regards.

Motherboard won't shut down

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Canoe March 7, 2026, 3:49pm 5

The inimitable @UncleSpellbinder drew up a great Inxi resource here :

The command that would help would be
inxi -Fzx