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  2. Timeout Detection and Recovery - Wikipedia

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    Timeout Detection and Recovery or TDR is a feature of the Windows operating system (OS) introduced in Windows Vista. It detects response problems from a graphics card (GPU), and if a timeout occurs, the OS will attempt a card reset to recover a functional and responsive desktop environment .

  3. Watchdog timer - Wikipedia

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    Upon final stage timeout, a corrective action is initiated, but no other stage is started because the end of the cascade has been reached. Typically, single-stage watchdog timers are used to simply restart the computer, whereas multistage watchdog timers will sequentially trigger a series of corrective actions, with the final stage triggering a ...

  4. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    This black screen was simplified compared to the previous blue screen, omitting instructions that the user is recommended to take. [ citation needed ] Windows 10 and later also displays a black screen due to an unfinished update in addition to the aforementioned causes above; in this case, after the system restarts and the user tries to login ...

  5. 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.

  6. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    A kernel panic is the Unix equivalent of Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death. It is a routine called when the kernel detects irrecoverable errors in runtime correctness; in other words, when continuing the operation may risk escalating system instability, and a system reboot is easier than attempted recovery.

  7. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Network timeout preventing a Web browser from loading a page. In telecommunications and related engineering (including computer networking and programming), the term timeout or time-out has several meanings, including: A network parameter related to an enforced event designed to occur at the conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time.

  8. 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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    On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.

  9. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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