Pavilion dv5 won't turn OFF

BillTDY

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Jun 27, 2013
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I have an old dv5-2230us, original OS win7. This thing won't turn off thru the operating systems shut down function. I've tried Windopes, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian. All with the same thing. When doing a shut down the machine fails to turn off. The OS functionally goes thru all shut down steps and stops functioning. But does not turn off, or powers off. It just stops short of actually powering off. Linux even shows it's command to power off but the maching itself does not shut off. Unless I manually force it to. Like hold power button, or remove batt and power cord. This is regardless of what OS I install on any hdd. Suggestions?