Booting A Series 3800 Terminal; Warm Boot; Cold Boot - Symbol Series 3800 Reference Manual

Series 3800 Product Reference Guide

Booting a Series 3800 Terminal

Warm Boot

A warm boot resets the operating system while preserving the RAM disk.
35-Key Keyboard
To perform a warm boot with the 35-key keyboard:
1. Turn off the terminal.
2. Press and hold the + and / keys.
3. Press and release the PWR key.
4. Release the + and / keys.
46-Key Keyboard
To perform a warm boot with the 46-key keyboard:
1. Turn off the terminal.
2. Press and hold the 4 and 5 keys.
3. Press and release the PWR key.
4. Release the 4 and 5 keys.
The terminal displays configuration information, copyright, RAM size, and expanded
memory RAM size. Other information displayed depends on the operating system, installed
device drivers, and AUTOEXEC.BAT commands. If this warm-boot procedure fails to restart
the terminal, use the cold-boot procedure.

Cold Boot

A cold boot resets the BIOS and operating system; it erases and recreates the RAM disk. If
the cold-boot procedure fails to restart the terminal, see Chapter 7, Error Recovery and
Troubleshooting.
This procedure permanently erases all data and software in the terminal un-
less they reside in NVM. Contents of RAM are lost.
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