[muglo] ATTN: Galen (was Re: Restarting Beige G3)

Galen,
Your clock is SERIOUSLY out of whack... Apparently you posted this email
reply 2 years ago....

Chris


on 5/30/01 9:56 AM, Galen at blueandwhiteg3@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I seriously doubt it's the keyboard. I'm assuming you're running Mac OS
> 9 on your beige - correct? I've noticed people often leave their system
> details out which doesn't help. I'm a Mac computer consultant and I've
> been working on Macs from System 6 on up through the latest 10.2.6.
> 
> My guess is that OS 9 is freezing and that's all. OS X virtually never
> freezes (mostly depending on your hardware's reliability) and you can
> often visually tell - buttons stop throbbing, etc. If you really want
> the real check if the machine is frozen, try connecting to it through
> the network - connect to a shared disk, print to a shared printer, load
> a Personal Web Server page, etc. If it succeeds, your keyboard is
> freezing somehow (which I doubt). If it fails, your machine is just
> plain frozen, one of the realities of OS 9.
> 
> Galen
> 
> P.S. If you need to replace your keyboard, I went down to the local Mac
> store around here and they were *giving away* Apple original ADB
> keyboards. I picked up one. Check your local Mac store or Goodwill,
> they'll have them for free/cheap. But, as I said earlier, I doubt it's
> the keyboard.
> 
> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:44 AM, Susan Dunbar wrote:
> 
>>  FYI
>> I found that I had a problem on my G4 with both my mouse and keyboard.
>> 
>> I had my mouse replaced twice and my keyboard once.
>> 
>> Hope you still have a warranty or have Apple Care.
>> 
>> Just a thought.
>> 
>> Susan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "Eric D." wrote: on 29/5/03 9:51 PM, Ken at kdavis@xxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> The keyboard and mouse on my G3 sometimes fail to respond.
>>> (Connections check OK and unplugging and reconecting trackball
>>> doesn't solve). There seems to be only an on/off button on the front
>>> of the tower.
>>> 
>>> Is there not a reset button on the G3s? Am I relegated to the
>>> separate operations of shutdown and restart?
>> 
>> Beige G3s, two options:
>> 1. reset or programmer buttons are on back (one freezes the computer,
>> the
>> other restarts it);
>> 
>> 2. command-control-power should force a hard-restart (same effect as
>> the
>> reset button... it activates the same hardware interrupt).
>> 
>> One way to check to see whether your computer is frozen is to type
>> command-option-escape, or command-power. If that brings something up,
>> you
>> know it's just a software crash.
>> 
>> PS What do you mean fails to respond?
>> 
>> PSS unplugging/plugging in ADB devices does not "reset" them
>> (technically
>> the only ports on a pre-USB machine that are hot-pluggable (i.e.
>> computer
>> shouldn't be turn off) are the serial ports and audio ports).
>> 
>> Eric.
>> 


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