Quote: Originally Posted by
pancit175 
What was the problem? reversed acc and +12v constant on the inputs?
No it was just a severe case of incompetence on my behalf (as usual). In the P1900 manual I saw there are jumpers for the shutdown timer delay. The default was for 6 seconds and I thought that might not be long enough to do the hibernate so I changed it to 15 seconds.
But I misread it and it was actually 15 minutes not 15 seconds! I also now realise that it isnt the amount of time it allows for shutdown but the time it takes until it shuts down.
Even though there is a delay to when it shuts down the computer, it switches off the aux 12v power I'm using to power my screen straight away. So what was happening is that I'd turn off the ignition and the screen would go straight away which I presumed meant it was just killing the power (my old M2-ATX kept the screen on until the power finally went out so I could see the hibernation screen etc). But in actual fact it was just turning off the screen and had begun it's 15 minute waiting cycle.
So as you can see, it was all just one massive balls up by me.
ps Do people in other countries say "balls up" or is it just an Aussie thing?
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