[muglo] Re: Restarting Beige G3

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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