Phil Pereira writes:

>I've found out that this happens at ANYPOINT while the system is running - so even at the CLI a "Ctrl+alt+Backspace" will kill my computer! Need to check if it's a BIOS thing or crap PC hardware - I'm pretty sure that it's NOT a NetBSD thing ;-)

check your bios for powersave settings; I've got a board
(ecs k7s5a) that powers off disk drives etc. when it sees
a ctrl+alt+bs (doesn't crash tho but then again, it isn't
running netbsd.  and it'll power-on again if you hit another
key.)


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