rebooting an i386 pc

Hello, I have a protected mode os running on a pc. I need to reboot the pc without using the bios. How do I go about this?

Steve

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Steve
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signaling the keyboard chip like this will reset the processor:

out 0x64, 0xfe

-bryan

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Bryan Bullard

I have no keyboard, does this matter?

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Steve

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What exactly is the keyboard controller doing? Or rather, why is it the one doing the resetting?

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Brett

"Brett" wrote in news:bf6hib$brpt0$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-184277.news.uni-berlin.de:

From:

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Read from the section titled: "EXITING PROTECTED MODE"

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