anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (02/10/87)
If some knowledgeable person would e-mail me some reliable advice, I'd appreciate it one heck of a lot. I have a Zenith 158. Most hangs you can get out of with a soft reboot (ctrl-alt-del). Once in a while, though, it's power switch city (of course, only with code I got from someone else :-). My problem is: I'd love to be able to do the power-up reset *without* turning the power off, since I think it's probably better not to be spinning the hard disk down and up like that if it can be avoided. Now I know that some computers have a button for doing this reset, and I further understand that what I'm looking for is basically a matter of installing a momentary contact button switch to short out a certain two points somewhere in the machine. But I'm not a hardware maven, and I've heard that there is considerable mis-information floating around on this very point. So what I'm looking for is someone who's *real sure* they know how to do this and is willing to tell me. If anyone wants to send warnings about what *not* to do, that's welcome info too. -- ==ARPA:==============anderson@unix.macc.wisc.edu===Jess Anderson====== | UUCP: {harvard,seismo,rutgers, (avoid ihnp4!) 1210 W. Dayton | | akgua,allegra,usbvax}!uwvax!uwmacc!anderson Madison, WI 53706 | ==BITNET:======================anderson@wiscmacc===608/263-6988=======