Getting Started 3
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 the [Ctrl][Alt][Del] keys simultaneously. (You may try a few times.)
2.If warm booting fails to work, you can press the reset button located in a small hole on the bottom of the Notebook PC with a pen, mechanical pencil, or paper clip. (Do not use a standard pencil because the tip may break off in the hole.)
Powering OFF the Notebook PC
For operating systems equipped with ACPI (Win- dows ME/2000/XP), the Notebook PC can be powered OFF by using Start Shut Down... Shut 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
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