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  2. Page fault - Wikipedia

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    The operating system delays loading parts of the program from disk until the program attempts to use it and the page fault is generated. If the page is not loaded in memory at the time of the fault, then it is called a major or hard page fault. The page fault handler in the OS needs to find a free location: either a free page in memory, or a ...

  3. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Screen of Death in Windows 9x, as it appears on Windows 95 and Windows 98. The Windows 9x line of operating systems used the Blue Screen of Death as the main way for virtual device drivers to report errors to the user.

  4. Machine-check exception - Wikipedia

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    Machine checks are a hardware problem, not a software problem. They are often the result of overclocking or overheating. In some cases, the CPU will shut itself off once passing a thermal limit to avoid permanent damage.

  5. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    10.0–10.1: The system displays text on the screen, giving details about the error, and becomes unresponsive. 10.2: Rolls down a black transparent curtain then displays a message on a white background informing the user that they should restart the computer. The message is shown in English, French, German and Japanese.

  6. Failure detector - Wikipedia

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    The construction of a failure detector is an essential, but a very difficult problem that occurred in the development of the fault-tolerant component in a distributed computer system. As a result, the failure detector was invented because of the need for detecting errors in the massive information transaction in distributed computing systems.

  7. Fault detection and isolation - Wikipedia

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    Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) is a subfield of control engineering which concerns itself with monitoring a system, identifying when a fault has occurred, and pinpointing the type of fault and its location. Two approaches can be distinguished: A direct pattern recognition of sensor readings that indicate a fault and an analysis ...

  8. Razer Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse introduced in 2006 is the company's most popular mouse line by sales, [47] having sold over 20 million units worldwide by June 2024. [48] Razer mice are used by around 8% of professional first-person shooter gamers. [49] In 2021, Razer introduced a new 8 kHz "HyperPolling" technology to power the Razer Viper 8K ...

  9. General protection fault - Wikipedia

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    A general protection fault (GPF) in the x86 instruction set architectures (ISAs) is a fault (a type of interrupt) initiated by ISA-defined protection mechanisms in response to an access violation caused by some running code, either in the kernel or a user program.