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foetoid
Full Member
USA
554 Posts |
 Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 09:03:00
On all the Quadras, it seems that they all have the two buttons. The one is the force restart button and the other I hear is a programmers button. How do I use this button. When pressed while OS is loaded white box apears. pressing when booting plays the chimes of death, unlike the iMac which loads FirmWare.________________
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 09:18:47
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How do I use this button. When pressed while OS is loaded white box apears.
That'd be a dialog box if you had MacsBug loaded, IIRC.jt  ™.
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 09:19:16
The programmers interrupt button is sometimes useful for gracefully recovering from crashed/stuck applications. If you hit that button you often get a blank box with a ">" prompt. Typing in "G FINDER"&return will sometimes get you back to the Finder from whence you can restart. And, if you have a debugger loaded (e.g., Macsbug) hitting the programmers interrupt button lets you get into debugging mode. (BTW, there are also some Easter eggs on some macs that require the use of this button -- just do a bit'o Googling  ).G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 17:28:31
If you have MacsBug installed, you can recover from about 90% of crashes without restarting, I've found.~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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