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Nah. The best solution is to shut down, unplug it, wait 10 seconds, plug it back in, then boot it back up. A good tech will say 30s or even a minute, because they know you're not going to count the 10 seconds.

The goal here is to clear the capacitors, most of which will drain within that 10s.