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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Is it possible to re-boot a PC from a program ?
Keywords: reboot.exe
Message-ID: <1654@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 22 Mar 89 23:38:03 GMT
References: <830@psueea.UUCP> <375@rruxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
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Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <375@rruxd.UUCP> wws@rruxd.UUCP (W W Scott) writes:
>In article <830@psueea.UUCP>, alexc@psu-cs.cs.pdx.edu (Alex Chan) writes:
>> 
>> 	Is it possible to write a program to reboot a PC ?
>> 	( I mean a " cold boot " with memory check. ) and how
>> 	could I do it ?
>> 
>> 	If someone have the binary or the sources for such
>> 	program " reboot " program, could you please e-mail
>> 	to me. Thank you in advance.
>
>Please mail the source to me also.

I got this out of the MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20:
 >     
 >     From: hplabs!hpcea!hpfcdc!hpldola!hp-lsd!nmsu-ee!rusty (Rusty Baldwin)
 >     Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
 >     Subject: Re: how do i do a pc warm boot	from software?
 >     Date: 7	Oct 87 22:00:50	GMT
 >     
 >     The following are two short routines to	do a warm or a coldboot.
 >     Hope they help you out.
 >     
 >     
 >     COLDBOOT:
 >     70A2:0100 BA4000	MOV	DX,0040
 >     70A2:0103 8EDA		MOV	DS,DX
 >     70A2:0105 BB7200	MOV	BX,0072
 >     70A2:0108 C7070000	MOV	WORD PTR [BX],0000
 >     70A2:010C EA0000FFFF	JMP	FFFF:0000
 >     
 >     WARMBOOT:
 >     70A2:0100 BA4000	MOV	DX,0040
 >     70A2:0103 8EDA		MOV	DS,DX
 >     70A2:0105 BB7200	MOV	BX,0072
 >     70A2:0108 C7073412	MOV	WORD PTR [BX],1234
 >     70A2:010C EA0000FFFF	JMP	FFFF:0000
 >     
 >     
 >     			       Rusty Baldwin
 >     			       nmsu-ee!rusty


	Sean Malloy
	Navy Personnel Research & Development Center
	San Diego, CA 92152-6800
	malloy@nprdc.navy.mil