PRAM, um what do i press agian?

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• Reply 1 of 4

  crawlingparanoia Posts: 443member

  April 20, 2002 4:10PM

  Hold command-option-p-r through a restart until you hear the chime twice. It's the same for OS X as it depends on the hardware and not the OS.
• Reply 2 of 4

  jccbin Posts: 476member

  April 20, 2002 9:42PM

  I don't mean to tread on anyone's advice, but zapping the PRAM is not something you should be doing on a regular basis.
  
  
  
  In OS 7-9.x, you should rebuild your desktop file fairly regularly, especially if you move a lot of data onto and off of your drives. You rebuild the desktop by restarting and holding down SHIFT-OPTION-APPLE. This forces the machine to start without extensions and it will query your about rebuilding the desktop. Answer Yes or OK. Restart normally after it has finished. You may find this especially helpful after crashes.
  
  
  
  Zapping the PRAM clears all sorts of system-level and hardware level data from the machine (like the correct date and time, network connection choices, etc). I don't know of any specific harm that zapping it will do, but I've never read anything in the Devnotes or Service Guides from Apple that Zapping the PRAM should be done regularly.
  
  
  
  Just my opinion.
  
  
  
  You
• Reply 3 of 4

  rolandg Posts: 632member

  April 23, 2002 3:53PM

  Is there some sort of quickreference with all the keystroke shortcuts out there?
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  allinone Posts: 279member

  April 23, 2002 10:42PM

  [quote]Originally posted by RolandG:
  
  <strong>Is there some sort of quickreference with all the keystroke shortcuts out there?</strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
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