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Restarting or Rebooting, Powering OFF the Notebook PC

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3 Getting Started Restarting or Rebooting After making changes to your operating system, you may be prompted to restart the system. Some installation processes will provide a dialog box to allow restart. To restart the system manually: Click the Start button and select Shut Down | and choose Restart. In case the operating system hangs (stops, freezes, crashes), try the following in this order: 1. Try a "warm boot" by pressing [Ctrl][Alt][Del] keys simultaneously. (You may try a few times if there is no response.) 2. If warm booting fails to work, see below for emergency shutdown procedure. Powering OFF the Notebook PC For operating systems equipped with ACPI (Windows 2000 & XP), the Notebook PC can be powered OFF by using Start | Shut Down... | Turn off (orShut down). For operating systems without proper power management (DOS, Windows NT), you must power OFF the Notebook PC by holding the power switch for 2 seconds (as opposed to 1 second to power ON) after closing applications and exiting operating systems. Holding the power switch for 2 seconds is necessary in order to prevent accidental power-OFFs. Emergency Shutdown In case your system won't turn OFF or restart, press the shutdown button with a straightened paper clip. The screens are different depending on your security settings. 32

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3
Getting Started
Restarting or Rebooting
After making changes to your operating system, you
may be prompted to restart the system. Some instal-
lation processes will provide a dialog box to allow
restart. To restart the system manually:
Click the
Start
button and select
Shut Down
| and
choose
Restart
.
In case the operating system hangs (stops, freezes,
crashes), try the following in this order:
1. Try a “warm boot” by pressing [Ctrl][Alt][Del]
keys simultaneously. (You may try a few times if
there is no response.)
2.
If warm booting fails to work, see below for emer-
gency shutdown procedure.
The screens are different depending
on your security settings.
Powering OFF the Notebook PC
For operating systems equipped with ACPI (Win-
dows 2000 & XP), the Notebook PC can be pow-
ered OFF by using
Start | Shut Down... | Turn off
(orShut down)
. For operating systems without
proper power management (DOS, Windows NT),
you must power OFF the Notebook PC by holding
the power switch for 2 seconds (as opposed to 1 sec-
ond to power ON) after closing applications and
exiting operating systems. Holding the power switch
for 2 seconds is necessary in order to prevent acci-
dental power-OFFs.
Emergency Shutdown
In case your system won’t turn OFF or restart, press
the shutdown button with a straightened paper clip.