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Re: How to reboot

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From: M. Daniel
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 10:47
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In <1991Apr29.071757.26827@dde.dk> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:

>How do I perform a soft reboot (I mean the equivalent of CTRL/ALT/DEL)
>from software?
>-- 

There are two steps to follow:

1.	Set the number 1234(hex) into the memory location 0040:0072 (hex).
2.	Do a jump to 0FFFF:0000 (hex).

This should do a reboot for you.

Hope this helps,

Mathew.
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Subject: Re: How to reboot
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