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| 5810.1 | | axel.zko.dec.com::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Tue Mar 18 1997 11:13 | 9 |
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Ask for more details?
A hang is indicitive of a problem. If my car "stops running" I'd
like it to start up again, but that doesn't solve the
problem.
mike
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| 5810.2 | | WOTVAX::HILTON | Save Water, drink beer | Thu Mar 20 1997 03:54 | 1 |
| There's settings in control panel, server to repeat on crash etc.
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| 5810.3 | | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Thu Mar 20 1997 05:01 | 8 |
| I assume you mean reboot on crash? (and it's Control Panel/System...).
As far as I know, it won't help if the system just hangs.
Of course it depends on one's definition of a hang - but if it _really_
hangs, then I see no other way but to pressthe button (unless you have
some sort of watchdog H/W).
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| 5810.4 | Watchdog H/W?? | CHOWDA::GLICKMAN | writing from Newport,RI | Thu Mar 20 1997 06:43 | 5 |
| re .3
Hang is what I was told.
What do you mean by watchdog H/W?
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| 5810.5 | | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Thu Mar 20 1997 07:41 | 11 |
| �What do you mean by watchdog H/W?
There's watchdog hardware which reboots the computer if it hangs (don't
know if any Windows NT versions exist though). This is basically the
only foolproof method - how would a pure S/W solution know when the
computer is hung? If it really hangs, the S/W to reboot it hangs
also...
See www.forthrt.com (though it doesn't seem to support Windows NT -
maybe there are others).
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| 5810.6 | Watchdog: force reset if software hangs | BBPBV1::WALLACE | john wallace @ bbp. +44 860 675093 | Thu Mar 20 1997 07:41 | 12 |
| A watchdog will (typically) force a system reset if it isn't poked
regularly by software within a given interval (typically seconds or less).
Watchdogs are not usually found in retail PCs or mainline Alpha
systems.
Digital's PICMG passive-backplane "modular computing commponents" offer
watchdog support on at least some of the CPUs (Alpha and Intel) as it
is often required for the industrial/telecom markets.
regards
john
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