Kick-off! doesn't restart my computer after the system crashes.
Some crashes which appear to be system crashes are actually caused by applications. Though the system may appear unresponsive, other processes are still running normally. See "How Kick-off! works" for more information.
Kick-off! turns my computer off after a crash, but it doesn't restart it.
My computer doesn't restart after a power failure.
Make sure your computer is set to restart after a power failure. You may have to change your BIOS settings to start up when power is applied. See "Hardware installation" for more information.
I disabled my Kick-off! software, but my computer keeps restarting every few minutes.
If the "Number of restart attempts" slider in the "Application Crashes" panel is set higher than '1', the Kick-off! hardware will wait for the Kick-off! software to reestablish communication at startup. Since the software has been disabled, this won't occur, and the Kick-off! hardware will restart the computer again.
To avoid this problem, always set this slider to '1' before disabling the software.
Kick-off! doesn't recover after an application crashes.
Applications must be configured to communicate with Kick-off! in order to detect crashes. An application must either be specifically written to support Kick-off!'s Rebound! Timers, or must be invoked through our Launcher wrapper application. See "How Kick-off! works" for more information.
If you're using Launcher to monitor an application, Kick-off! can only detect application failures that cause them to terminate. It is possible for applications to fail in ways that do not cause actual crashes. You might want to consider implementing a Rebound! Timer to catch these type of failures.
If you are running an application which includes support for Rebound! Timers, make sure its timer is being set. Open the Kick-off! control panel and click on the "Application Crashes" tab. The timer should be shown in the list at the bottom of the panel.
My log shows that Kick-off! restarted due to a system crash immediately after startup.
Kick-off! can't add an entry to your log while the computer is crashed, so it adds one after it restarts the computer. kickoffd must be running before Kick-off! can add its entry, so the "kickoffd started" entry will appear before the crash (or any other) entry.