[HM] Shutting down frozen G4

[Bob K]

You are right with pushing the button, but you must HOOOOOLD it for 
several seconds.
All will go dark, and you can start up fresh.

Bob
On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 11:47 US/Eastern, James Baumann wrote:

> So, I gots me a new G4 tower and every once in awhile it freezes up on 
> me.  Well, with this new fangled keyboard sans power button I no 
> longer have the control-alt-shift-power restart option and it doesn't 
> work when I hit the glowing button on the tower.  All that's left for 
> me to do is unplug the thing and I'm not too crazy about that idea.
>
> Am I missing something?  What should I be doing in this situation?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> james
>
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