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  2. Thermal cutoff - Wikipedia

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    Thermal switches on microprocessors often stop only the fetching of instructions to execute, reducing the clock rate to zero until a lower temperature is reached, while maintaining power to the cache to prevent data loss (although a second switch, with a higher triggering temperature, usually turns off even the cache and forces the computer to ...

  3. Xbox 360 technical problems - Wikipedia

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    People who experience the problem will find that they have to send the Xbox 360 away for repair or replacement and it may take up to 3 weeks to repair or replace. During the time of the Xbox being replaced, Microsoft and UPS will keep the client(s) updated with the current status of where the Xbox is and whether it is being repaired or replaced.

  4. Processor power dissipation - Wikipedia

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    When the CPU uses power management features to reduce energy use, other components, such as the motherboard and chipset, take up a larger proportion of the computer's energy. In applications where the computer is often heavily loaded, such as scientific computing, performance per watt (how much computing the CPU does per unit of energy) becomes ...

  5. Error message - Wikipedia

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    The fix is to close some programs or install more physical memory. ... SYNTAX ERROR - Seen on many computer systems when the received instructions are in a format ...

  6. Halt and Catch Fire (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly language mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction that causes the computer's central processing unit (CPU) to cease meaningful operation, typically requiring a restart of the computer.

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    By default, Windows XP is configured to save only a 64kB minidump when it encounters a stop error, and to then automatically reboot the computer. Because this process happens very quickly, the blue screen may be seen only for an instant or not at all.

  8. Memory leak - Wikipedia

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    A memory leak reduces the performance of the computer by reducing the amount of available memory. A memory leak can cause an increase in memory usage and performance run-time, and can negatively impact the user experience. [4]

  9. Xbox 360 - Wikipedia

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    The newer Xbox 360 S and E models indicate system overheating when the console's power button begins to flash red, unlike previous models where the first and third quadrant of the ring would light up red around the power button if overheating occurred.