New hardware member

Today I got a HP Compaq nx6120 Laptop. One of my friend brought it from Hong Kong. It took only 75000/= BDT [approx US$ 1100]. AFAIK it has better GNU/Linux support. It is Novell certified too. Just installed SUSE Linux 10.0. Worked like charm. But got one issue. From SUSE I can not restart the Lappy. Is it Linux kernel or SUSE issue? Linux Kernel version is 2.6.12 :-/