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System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices

Booting a System That Crashed

In some instances, you may have to boot a system that has stopped (crashed) without being properly shut down. This procedure covers the basics of how to boot if your system was unable to recover from the crash.

Prerequisites

  1. Your system crashed and was not properly shut down due to unusual conditions.
  2. Your system is turned off.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that all hardware and peripheral devices are properly connected.
  2. Turn on all of the peripheral devices.
  3. Watch the screen for information about automatic hardware diagnostics.
  4. If your machine has a key, then change the key position to correspond to the service mode.
    Note: If your machine does not have a key, please refer to the User Guide or documentation that came with the machine for the specific steps for booting from removable media.
  5. Turn the system unit on.

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