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Apple Power Macintosh 5400 series User Manual

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Your computer won’t restart, and a CD-ROM disc is in the CD-ROM drive.

m Your computer may be trying to start up from the CD-ROM disc. Press the

Open/Close button of your CD-ROM drive to open the tray and remove the
CD-ROM disc. Close the tray, then restart your computer.

You can’t start an application program or it quits unexpectedly. Or, when you try to open

a program, you see a message that not enough memory is available.

One of the following is probably the cause:

m The Macintosh ran out of memory.

Quit the programs that you have open and then open the program you want
to use, or restart your Macintosh.

Make sure virtual memory is turned on in the Memory control panel.
For more information on virtual memory, see “Increasing Memory
Available to Run Applications,” under “Working With Several Applications
at a Time” in Chapter 4 of this manual, and the “Memory” topic area of
Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu.

m The program needs more memory.

Use the program’s Info window to give it more memory. For more
information on increasing a program’s memory, see the “Memory” topic
area of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu.

You see a message that your computer doesn’t have enough memory to start an

application or open a document.

You can make more memory available to run your application following the
instructions in “Increasing Memory Available to Run Applications” under
“Working With Several Applications at a Time” in Chapter 4 of this manual.

You can’t open a document, or you see a message that an application program can’t

be found.

m Some documents can be opened by more than one application program.

Try starting a program that you think might be able to open the document,
then choose Open from the program’s File menu to try to open the
document.

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