Is doing ".reboot" from windbg to reboot system safe?

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Does executing “.reboot” cmd from windbg has any side effects?
Is doing a manual reset better than doing a reboot through windbg?

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It should be just a reset, nothing different.

What are you seeing different?

-pro

On 12/19/06, Praveen Kumar Amritaluru wrote:
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AFAIK, both are heard resets!

On 12/19/06, Praveen Kumar Amritaluru wrote:
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My preferred order of restarting a machine is as follows:

  1. Use the Restart or Shutdown of the OS. Possibly the most used command in
    one of my machines is Shutdown.exe.
  2. WinDbg .reboot
  3. Reset button or Ctl+Alt+Del when available, usually when debunking
    startup problems.
  4. Power down. Last resort because I hate throwing the power spikes of power
    on/off through the system. To my chagrin I find to many manufacturors are
    removing the Reset button and only providing a power on/off button.

As to WinDbg .reboot, I think, but that is purely supposition, it is a
“softer” shutdown than the Restart button, but YMMV.

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The personal opinion of
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“Praveen Kumar Amritaluru” wrote in message
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> Does executing “.reboot” cmd from windbg has any side effects?
> Is doing a manual reset better than doing a reboot through windbg?
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>it is a “softer” shutdown than the Restart button, but YMMV.

I dont remember exactly, but doesn’t .reboot also do a hard reset and lead
back to POST?

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Again this is only a guess, but I’m fairly sure it does a reset on the CPU, or simply jumps to the restart point, aka DOS. What it does before the reset is the question and only the developers can say. In my experience I have had far fewer problems with reboot than the Reset switch. Neither one you WANT to do, but sometimes you have too.

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“amitr0” wrote in message news:xxxxx@windbg…
>it is a “softer” shutdown than the Restart button, but YMMV.

I dont remember exactly, but doesn’t .reboot also do a hard reset and lead back to POST?