Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/02/03:00:24
On Fri, 01 May 1998 19:27:19 GMT, random AT visi DOT net (Michael Bosley)
wrote:
>On Fri, 01 May 1998 12:32:59 GMT, gregorio AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam
>Hankiewicz) wrote:
>
>>Hello.
>>
>>I've heard there's some asm code which can reboot the computer.
>>Does someone have this code? Is ot possible to choose between a warm
>>boot and a cold boot?
>>
>>- Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - gregorio AT jet DOT es - http://web.jet.es/gregorio
>>- Gogosoftware - http://welcome.to/gogosoftware
>
>On w95, i think there is a command in the windows or windows\system
>directory that can reboot the computer. Sorry I can't remember the
>name (i looked for it and couldn't remember what it was either).
>
>I believe that the only way to cold boot a system (if we are both
>talking about the same "cold boot") is if the user actually turns the
>computer off, waits, and then turns it back on.
>
There are computers with ATX motherboards, which actually supports a
software-controlled ON/OFF button...
I´ve had some reboots while programming... Most of these have been
caused by my crappy code uncontrollably writing over all memory with
0's... So I guess you could try that :)
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