[Novalug] Dell Poweredge SC1420 "Sleep Problem"

[Beartooth]

 	"Your computer failed to suspend. Check the help file for 
common problems."

 	"Visit quirk website."

 	I have no faintest intimation *what* help file might be 
worth a tinker's dam, of whatever clay.

 	But the button, which tries to launch a browser, points 
at http:// people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ -- which has 
failed a couple dozen times with at least half a dozen browsers.

 	What's more, so have all attempts to truncate that URL 
and navigate from there.

 	Nor do I know more than the spelling of "suspend," 
"sleep," "hibernate," nor any synonym in a computer sense. The 
contexts in which I have encountered them have referred to 
laptops, which I hardly ever use.

 	What the blinking blue blazes is going on here? Nothing 
short of the reset button ever does much good, and that may have 
any of several results, unpredictably, afaict. It may bring up 
the display I had last, or a reboot, or things in between.

 	The machine, however, contains stuff I would be glad to 
save; it's the same one that has failed endlessly to upgrade from 
F11 to F12, by any means short of a fresh install. I'll start 
copying things to media tomorrow, if not today ....

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.