arends@Yosemite.metaphor.com (Dale M Arends) (04/23/91)
Folks, my wife asked me a question that I couldn't answer and wasn't
able to find in the manuals so I turn to thee for help.
She has an SI and managed to get the system to hang. Being an old
MSDOS person, she tried CTRL-ALT-DEL which, of course, didn't work. At
that point she turned to me to ask what WOULD work (besides the power
switch) and I didn't know (embarassing :-)).
On my CX, I merely hit the programmer's switch. What do I, or rather,
what does she do on the SI to restart it after a system hang?
Rather than use up net bandwidth, please email the info to me at the address
below.
I thank you...
Dale
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probably aren't interested and maybe don't agree and therefore ...arends@Yosemite.metaphor.com (Dale M Arends) (04/24/91)
Well, I got an answer to the question of restart on an SI after a crash.
It seems that the magic combination is to press, simultaneously,
the COMMAND-CONTROL-POWER ON keys.
Sheeeesh! A programmer's switch would have been more intuitive, IMHO.
I wonder if this will work in all instances...probably not, not if the
system is reeeally hosed.
Anyway, thanks to all those who sent me the answer.
Dale
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Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employer. They
probably aren't interested and maybe don't agree and therefore ...CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) (04/24/91)
I've heard the reset sequence for the IIsi referred to as
"Control-Flower-Power"
:-)
And, as far as I know it will work in all the situations that a "hard" reset
switch does on, say, a vanilla Mac II. However, there are times when the
reset switch will not work. I once crashed a vintage II in such a manner
as to render the actual POWER button on the back of the machine inoperative.
I had to physically unplug the silly thing....
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