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  2. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Macs made after 1987 but prior to 1998, upon failing the POST, will immediately halt with a "death chime", which is a sound that varies by model; it can be a simple beep, a car crash sound, the sound of shattering glass, a short musical tone, or more. On the screen, if working, will be the Sad Mac icon, along with two hexadecimal strings, which ...

  3. Crash (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits. On some operating systems or individual applications, a crash reporting service will report the crash and any details relating to it (or give the user the option to do so), usually to ...

  4. Crash-only software - Wikipedia

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    Since failure-handling and normal startup use the same methods, this can increase the chance that bugs in failure-handling code will be noticed, [clarification needed] except when there are leftover artifacts, such as data corruption from a severe failure, that don't occur during normal startup. [citation needed] Crash-only software also has ...

  5. My tech startup failed due to 3 mistaken assumptions ... - AOL

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    The failure of Viblio wasn’t about execution, it was about business assumptions that led us astray. My tech startup failed due to 3 mistaken assumptions—entrepreneurs take note Skip to main ...

  6. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    This is not a crash screen, however; upon crashing, Windows 1.0 would simply lock up or exit to DOS. This behavior is also present in Windows 2.0 and Windows 2.1. Windows 3.0 uses a text-mode screen for displaying important system messages, usually from digital device drivers in 386 Enhanced Mode or other situations where a program could not run.

  7. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    In computing, BIOS (/ ˈ b aɪ ɒ s,-oʊ s /, BY-oss, -⁠ohss; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). [1]

  8. Deadly Osprey crash caused by mechanical failure, pilot error ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crash off the coast of Japan in November that killed all eight crew members was caused by a failure in the gear box and the pilot's decision ...

  9. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    The basic assumption is that the hardware and the software should perform correctly and a failure of an assertion results in a panic, i.e. a voluntary halt to all system activity. [5] The kernel panic was introduced in an early version of Unix and demonstrated a major difference between the design philosophies of Unix and its predecessor Multics .