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>This message was displayed when shutdown was complete and the computer did not support software-initiated power-off. It told the user, “Okay, shutdown is compl
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
>This message was displayed when shutdown was complete and the computer did not support software-initiated power-off. It told the user, “Okay, shutdown is complete. It’s okay. You can hit the power button now. I won’t get mad; I promise.”
That's a somewhat unsatisfactory answer, or more of a software-minded answer. The full answer: Because ATX power was a NEW thing. AT motherboards and power supplies were overwhelmingly still in-use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS-ON_Signal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS-ON_Signal
- Joker_vD 2y ago> And back in the day, most computers fell into the second category. Power management was one of those newfangled thingies that only the fancy-pants computers supported.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoPS-ON and ACPI states are different things. You could fully shutdown an ATX system without ACPI 1.0 https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/204205/what-is-required-to-activate-the-ps-on-on-the-motherboard-to-power-on-a-compu https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/204205/what-...