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| | | (...) Is this while running Checkit, or regardless of what the system is doing? I'm not 100% clear on that. And what do you mean by soft boot? I'm familiar with that term being a restart using software (i.e. cntrl-alt-del) but I think you're meaning (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: PC Troubleshooting... —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | (...) I meant hitting the reset button, which I've always heard of as a soft boot because it doesn't cut the power. Is it called something else? (...) Actually, I am pretty sure that it was the motherboard -- the part I was most loathe to have to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: PC Troubleshooting... —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) Soft boot generally refers to ctrl-alt-del or rebooting via software (which Windoze generally does every time you make a change to the system 8?() Hard boot is pressing the reset button (reboot using hardware). Using the on/off switch is (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: PC Troubleshooting... —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) anyway. (...) One other thing you may want to check is that the CPU fan's working OK, and the thermal connection is good. IIRC Pentium IIIs shut down when they overheat. Regards ROSCO (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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