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Re: PC Troubleshooting...
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:03:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Brown writes:
> > 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 something else.
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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?
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 generally called "cycling the power"
Regards
ROSCO
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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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