On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Lana Litwin wrote:

>
> It wasn't easy. I had to push restart and quickly place my fingers on
> three keys simultaneously. Luckily I have long fingers.

Actually, you do have a 'Window of opportunity'.
As long as the initial 'Chime' has not completed before you get the  
'Keys' pressed, your golden.

HTH

Chuck D.


> On Dec 3, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:17 PM, mlitwin wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>      My computer is now out of panic mode. The article I read did
>>> not tell me to push c if I wanted to install  by cd. It said push h
>>> to reset pram if I got that  panic error.
>>
>> That was a bad, bad article. pressing 'h' does nothing; to rest the
>> pram you must boot while simultaneously holding down the command-
>> option-p-r keys, which always required me to use a pencil in my mouth
>> to either press the power switch or hold down the 'p' key ;-)
>>
>> -- 
>> Bruce Johnson
>> University of Arizona
>> College of Pharmacy
>> Information Technology Group
>>
>> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>>

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