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  2. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Repeated but recoverable read or write errors, unusual noises, excessive and unusual heating, and other abnormalities, are warning signs. Head crash: a head may contact the rotating platter due to mechanical shock or other reason. At best this will cause irreversible damage and data loss where contact was made.

  3. Xbox 360 technical problems - Wikipedia

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    Warning signs may include freeze-ups, graphical problems in the middle of gameplay, such as checkerboard or pinstripe patterns on the screen, and sound errors; mostly consisting of extremely loud noises that can’t be affected by the volume control, the console only responding when the power button is pressed to turn it off. [10]

  4. List of commercial failures in computing - Wikipedia

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    Itanium logo. Itanium was a brand of 64-bit Intel microprocessors first announced in 1994 and released in 2001, [9] after long delays. [10] It was born in December 1988 as a secret Hewlett-Packard research project to succeed the company's PA-RISC instruction set architecture. [10]

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  6. Capacitor plague - Wikipedia

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    Failed aluminium electrolytic capacitors with open vents in the top of the can, and visible dried electrolyte residue (reddish-brown color) The capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007, especially those from some Taiwanese manufacturers, [1] [2] due to faulty electrolyte composition that ...

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    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. This version of the BSoD, internally referred to as " _VWIN32_FaultPopup ", gives the user the option either to restart the computer or to continue using Windows, allowing the user to save their work ...

  8. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The white screen of death that appears on Dell computers. A White Screen of Death appears on several other operating systems, content management systems, [6] and on some BIOS, such as from Dell. It can be seen on iOS 7, and also when a white iPhone 5 or later or a white 5th generation iPod Touch screen freezes. Everything on the screen but the ...

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