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Article #15665Z-158 System Reset/Power Up
From: anderson
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 18:02
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 18:02
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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.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!uwvax!uwmacc!anderson From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Z-158 System Reset/Power Up Message-ID: <1043@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 13:02:58 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1043 Posted: Tue Feb 10 13:02:58 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 19:25:49 EST Distribution: na Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 26 Keywords: help