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Rebooting essentially starts up the OmniBook software from scratch—your
current work session is discarded, and the operating system rereads the
system files to determine the proper configuration. This is the same as
rebooting a PC.
To reboot normally (from drive C)
1. If possible, exit Program Manager (and Windows).
2. If an OmniBook floppy drive is plugged in, make sure there's no disk in
the drive.
3. For a normal reboot, hold CTRL and ALT, press DEL (abbreviated as
CTRL+ALT+DEL), then release all keys. If you're prompted, press
CTRL+ALT+DEL again. In certain situations, you might need to press
the
reset
button.
4. Optional: When the OmniBook displays a list of several configurations,
press SPACEBAR to stop the 5-second time-out—then press a number
key and ENTER to select a particular configuration. If you do nothing,
the OmniBook uses its default configuration.
If your system doesn't succeed with a normal reboot, one or more of your
system files on drive C may be bad. If you have a floppy boot disk available,
you can reboot from the floppy drive (see "To reboot from a floppy disk"
below)—or you can selectively reboot from drive C. See
doesn't reboot successfully."
To reboot from a floppy disk
1. Plug in the OmniBook floppy drive.
2. Insert a good "boot" disk in the drive—a system disk, which contains
system files. You can use your Support Utility disk.
3. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot from the floppy disk.
If you are using the Support Utility disk, choose the Minimum Startup option.
This starts the OmniBook in a fixed, minimum configuration that facilitates
recovery:
The power-management and message-management drivers are loaded.
The PC card drivers aren't loaded, so the card slots are not usable.
Common MS-DOS disk commands are available, such as ScanDisk and
EDIT. You can use them to examine drive C.
After rebooting successfully from a floppy disk, determine what is wrong
with drive C. Then try rebooting again from drive C to regain the
computer's full configuration. If this does not work, see
doesn't reboot
successfully.".
To reset the OmniBook
If the OmniBook unexpectedly hangs up in a state where nothing seems to
work, you may need to reset it. This is the equivalent of turning a PC off and
"If the OmniBook
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