Power Button shutdown solution.
No problem now. This experience may be useful to somebody.
I had a problem with my power button not putting my T500 into shutdown. I had to use the mouse to shut down. I think this conencided with my installing an updated BIOS to let me get XP mode on my Windows 7 install. The solution was to change the action of the button to be a sleep button, and then changing it back.
Before making that fix, I found that if I held down the power button down for 5 seconds, it seemed to act as a hardware reset. That is probably in some manual, but I had not seen it.
Hi nonfiction,
Thanks for posting how you got your T500's power button to shut down from Win 7, it's sure to help others.
Holding the power button down does a hard-power-off in my experience. That should be a last resort, because it leaves your hard drive's filesystems in a "dirty" state that needs to be checked/fixed on your next boot. The reason is that both the OS and the hard drive itself cache writes; when you or a program or background process request to write to the hard drive, the info goes to a memory cache (in fast RAM) rather than being immediately written to the (slow) drive. That way multiple write requests can be collected and all written to the drive at once, which is much faster. This works great until you remove power when the OS isn't expecting it. Say goodbye to the data in the cache(s)! So anyway: it's good to know how to do a hard-power-off in case you need to use as a last resort, but it's best to avoid using it if you possibly can.
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Frank
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