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From: campbell@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Trevor George Campbell CC361)
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Subject: Re: Program needed (how about warm boot?)
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Date: 7 Jun 91 09:41:00 GMT
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valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:

>rickc@agora.rain.com (Rick Coates) writes
>	(in regard to ways of causing a jump to FFFF:0) :

>>This works, but it does a cold boot (reset).  Does anyone out there know
>>the magic to cause a warm boot?  It's the same thing, except if a certain
>>memory location has the right contents, the memory test, etc. is bypassed.
>>This bit of PC lore was on the net once, but I managed to lose it.

>You (Rick) should probably follow up on the various utility packages

>	pop ds
>	mov word [472],1234
>	jmp ffff:0
>--

>	(Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)

Don't you think you have left out some code (ie: what the hell is pop ds going
to achieve ?????)

and the memory location that you wish the MAGIC NUMBER  1234  to go into is
Seg:Off of 40:72  ( both in hex ) and [472] is not the same without ds
being set to 0000 first .......


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