Cold Boot
Advanced User’s Guide
7-3
Cold Boot
The second software method for resetting a Falcon unit is the cold boot. A cold
boot should be used only if a warm boot is unsuccessful. Performing a cold
boot is analogous to pressing the reset button on a PC or to turning the PC’s
power off and then back on.
To perform a cold boot on a Falcon unit, first turn it off. Then press the
appropriate combination of keys for the Falcon model being used, holding the
first two keys down while pressing the third.
Table 7-2: Falcon Cold Boot Key Sequences
Release all three keys simultaneously, and the unit will reset.
Simply removing and inserting the battery pack will not force a cold boot,
because the backup battery can provide minimal power to sustain the Falcon’s
operating state. The exception to this is when the backup battery is drained of
all power, a condition that should never be allowed to happen.
When a cold boot is performed, all transient data is lost, along with the state of
any application that was running on the unit. Data written to the RAM drive
(
D
), the flash drive (
C
), or an ATA flash card will remain intact. If a cold boot
happens because of a dead backup battery, data written to a RAM drive may
not be maintained.
A cold boot begins with a retesting of the hardware and then follows with the
DOS boot sequence. The unit reboots DOS under the same conditions as a
desktop PC: Device drivers included in the
config.sys
file and
applications included in the
autoexec.bat
file are automatically loaded as
Falcon Model
Keypad Type
Key Sequence
31x
-
<ALT><FN2><POWER>
32x
-
<ALT><FN><POWER>
33x/34x
25-key
<FN><LAMP><POWER>
33x/34x
38-key
<ALT><FN><POWER>
34x
48-key
<ALT><FN><POWER>
Repeat this procedure prior to attempting a Hardware reset.
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