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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Reboot from software
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Date: 13 Dec 90 17:03:09 GMT
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corry@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chris Corry) writes:

>Hi.

>I'm writing a program that, under certain conditions, needs to reboot the
>computer. I figured that this was a simple generation of interrupt 25 (hex 19).
>However, everytime I try to use this mechanism (using geninterrupt or int86
>from Turbo C) the computer hangs. Anyone have any ideas?  Please mail or post
>and I'll summarize if there seems to be an interest (I can't belive that I'm
>the only person who has run into this problem. Then again I'm probably doing
>something stupid.)

>THANXS!

>Chris Corry
>corry@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

This is becoming an FAQ.

	MOV AX,40
	MOV DS,AX
	MOV AX,1234
	MOV [72],AX
	JMP FFFF:0