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  2. Nonvolatile BIOS memory - Wikipedia

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    On ATX motherboards, the PSU will supply 5V standby power to the motherboard to keep CMOS memory energized while the system is off. Some computer designs have used non-button cell batteries, such as the cylindrical "1/2 AA" used in the Power Mac G4 as well as some older IBM PC compatibles, or a 3-cell nickel–cadmium (Ni–Cd) CMOS battery ...

  3. List of software bugs - Wikipedia

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    AT&T long-distance network crash (January 15, 1990), in which the failure of one switching system would cause a message to be sent to nearby switching units to tell them that there was a problem. Unfortunately, the arrival of that message would cause those other systems to fail too – resulting in a cascading failure that rapidly spread across ...

  4. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Using a logic analyzer or a dedicated POST card‍—‌an interface card that shows port 0x80 output on a small display‍—‌a technician could determine the origin of the problem. Once an operating system is running on the computer the code displayed by such a board may become meaningless, since some OSes, e.g. Linux, use port 0x80 for I/O ...

  5. List of deprecated terms for diseases - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of deprecated terms for diseases. Obsolete term Preferred term Reference Notes Apoplexy: Stroke [1]

  6. Byzantine fault - Wikipedia

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    The term takes its name from an allegory, the "Byzantine generals problem", [1] developed to describe a situation in which, to avoid catastrophic failure of a system, the system's actors must agree on a strategy, but some of these actors are unreliable in such a way as to cause other (good) actors to disagree on the strategy and they may be ...

  7. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Race condition - Wikipedia

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    Race condition in a logic circuit. Here, ∆t 1 and ∆t 2 represent the propagation delays of the logic elements. When the input value A changes from low to high, the circuit outputs a short spike of duration (∆t 1 + ∆t 2) − ∆t 2 = ∆t 1.