The Mac does not shut down when the cable modem goes out. You obviously had something else going on there, that you have not mentioned, at the same time as the cable outage.
It should not be necessary to reboot after the cable modem comes back on again if the computer is in a usable state. Yours had something else going on. It is not normal practice to require a reboot once network connectivity is restored. I guess that something locked up the ethernet port, and everything else, when the cable went out. When the cable modem shuts down nicely, it has the same effect as you pulling the ethernet cord from the computer. No effect whatsoever. Modem back and the Mac establishes the network like again.
Pushing the power button does nothing. Pressing and holding for at least 5 seconds will shut it down.
Glad you got the the all-in-one sorted out. The printer must have been installed for you to have printed with it. It was probably using the GIMP drivers if you had not installed any software for it.
Either way, you're back in business
P
(MAC OS 10.4.9)
This morning my cable went off for about 15 minutes. t the time I was working with trying to find out why some photos I was emailed arrived in gray scale. I was looking at the "information" pane in Preview which showed the photo in color at the bottom.)
When the TVs came back on, the activity light on my modem did not. I could not wake up my machine. First I phoned support for my cable system, and the tech checked it out from their end. (I was afraid to push the on-off button on the iMac as I had had a program opened.)
(Electrical power to the house was not involved.)
With my PCs the systems did not shut down due to cable failure, so I could reboot.)
With great trepidation I finally opted push the power button. No luck. So I then unplugged the machine. Success!
Should I expect this each time the cable goes out?
Re: the magic.
I have used my new all-in-one HP PhotoSmart 3100 series to print, copy and scan without installing the software. But I learned after reading the little manual that it must be installed to move scanned items to the computer. During the install it came to a pane that said to identify the HP products. It was blank. I waited at least a half hour ("wile it gathered information"), but still blank. So I closed it. A storm was approaching, so I shut down until the following morning.
When I booted up there was the pane with the product there! I highlighted it, clicked on "continue", then got the congratulatory message. I was then able to scan the data to this machine.
Angeline

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