[CUBE] keyboard restart

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-13 23:22, Marc Stergionis wrote:

> Christopher Hack wrote:
> 
>> if force quit won't work, is there any way at all of restarting a cube from
>> the apple pro keyboard?
> 
> Press Control-Eject ... the *very* bottom left key and the *very* top right
> key. This will bring up a dialog box within which the default is shut down
> (return). Or you can press "escape" to cancel, "r" to restart or "s" to sleep.
> Nifty :)

And Control-Command-Eject (the "three-fingered-salute") will force a restart
without going through that dialog. However, sometimes the system just won't
respond to the keyboard, and the last resort is to press (touch) and hold
the Power button. Or, of course, use the restart button on the bottom.

> Yes, this will shut down and start the computer. However it's a force quit
> that's virtually guaranteed to corrupt files, whether you're using OS 9 or 10.
> Not the best way. If you must do this, you'll also want to run DFA for OS9 or
> fsck for OS 10 to fix what you did.

True, but sometimes there's just no other option, if the computer won't
respond to any other means.

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