Start over by restarting your computer – Apple Macintosh 6500 User Manual
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Start over by restarting your computer
Often you can eliminate a problem simply by clearing the computer’s memory
and starting over.
If you can, save any open documents before restarting your Macintosh. If
your system is frozen and does not respond to anything you do, or if you have
a “bomb” message on the screen, saving may not be possible. You can try
pressing x-Option-Esc to quit the application in use when the problem
occurred; if this works, you can then save the documents open in other
applications before restarting. Restart the computer immediately after you
save your documents—quitting an application using x-Option-Esc may leave
corrupted data in the computer’s memory. This corrupted data is erased when
you restart the computer.
Note: Use this key combination to force an application to quit only when you
can’t choose Quit from the File menu.
To restart your Macintosh, try the following steps:
1
If you can, choose Restart from the Special menu or from the dialog box that’s on screen.
Dialog boxes contain messages from the computer. If something goes wrong,
a message may appear on the screen asking you to restart the computer.
2
If you can’t choose Restart, press the Power key (marked with a
π
) on the keyboard,
then click Shut Down.
3
If the Power key on the keyboard doesn’t work, hold down the
x
and Control keys while
you press the Power key (
π
).
This key combination restarts the computer. (Use this key combination only
when you can’t choose Restart from the Special menu or restart the computer
using the Power key.)
4
If your computer still doesn’t restart, turn it off by pressing the standby power button
(
®
) on the back of the computer. Wait at least 10 seconds, and then turn the computer
on again by pressing the Power key (marked with a
π
) on the keyboard.
If you suspect that the problem is with other equipment, such as a printer or
an external hard disk that’s attached to your computer, turn that equipment off
for 10 seconds or longer, then turn it on again and restart the Macintosh.
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