Hi All, I really regret that I've hit the "Reply to All" button (sometimes I do use only "Reply", believe it or not!) when I said this: > Dear Abby, > > Just a tip on freeze-ups. Instead of pulling a plug from the wall its safer > to use 3-key combination: COMMAND/CTRL/POWER-BUTTON for restart, works > always. > > Sasha. as I've received dozens of messages proving me wrong, few very examples: > ........Well, nearly always! Sometimes you just have to pull the plug. > Wrong! Does not work always! (As described in the Macintosh guide) > Sometimes even pressing the power button on the front of the computer does > not help! Then there is nothing else to do than pulling the plug! Some guys also presumed that my Macs are especially prone to crashing, but CellQuest didn't freeze in here since Quadras. Formatting my Macs from time to time with "ZERO ALL DATA" (after backup of course) does them really good, even more than Desktop rebuilding and disk driver updating. Now, I had to go and check with a few Mac Gurus (thanks to Stefan Mueller and Apple Support) and overall opinion is that older PowerPCs and earlier Macs do not always restart on this (Apple Support said only with MacOS 8 or later). Anyway, sometimes it's better to leave it disconnected (pull a plug) for one minute - for memory to empty, just in case of resident conflicts reappearing. It could be that people assign to much memory to CellQuest and there is not enough memory left for printing. Printer Monitor is going to take as much as it can get from available memory but if there is less then needed for spooling this problem may occur. This was valuable lesson, I'll be more careful on Mac issues, it seems there are a lot of guys out there playing with it more than me! Thank you all, Sasha. ---------------------- Dr Sasha Sreckovic Dept Path & Micro University of Bristol University Walk Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK Sasa.Sreckovic@bristol.ac.uk Tel +44-(0)117-928-8606 Fax +44-(0)117-928-7896
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