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  2. 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 ...

  3. Reliability, availability and serviceability - Wikipedia

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    Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), also known as reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), is a computer hardware engineering term involving reliability engineering, high availability, and serviceability design. The phrase was originally used by IBM as a term to describe the robustness of their mainframe computers.

  4. Memory leak - Wikipedia

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    For example: if the elevator's power were turned off or in a power outage, the program would stop running. When power was turned on again, the program would restart and all the memory would be available again, but the slow process of memory leak would restart together with the program, eventually prejudicing the correct running of the system.

  5. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    After restarting, it shows a message for a few seconds informing the user that a problem caused the computer to restart, before continuing to boot. The message now includes a Chinese translation. If five new kernel panics occur within three minutes of the first one, the Mac will display a prohibitory sign for thirty seconds, and then shut down ...

  6. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The debugger can then be used to examine the contents of memory and determine the source of the problem. A BSoD can also be caused by a critical boot loader error, where the operating system is unable to access the boot partition due to incorrect storage drivers, a damaged file system or similar problems.

  7. Fault tolerance - Wikipedia

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    If component B is later changed (to a less fault-tolerant design) the system may fail suddenly, making it appear that the new component B is the problem. Only after the system has been carefully scrutinized will it become clear that the root problem is actually with component A. Reduction of priority of fault correction.

  8. Fix problems signing in to AOL Mail

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    While most sign in problems can stem from password issues, you might also get blank or missing screens, or various errors when trying to sign in. No matter the problem you're experiencing, the following troubleshooting steps should help you get back in your AOL Mail quickly. Sign in again

  9. Cold start (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Similar problem occurs when creating instances in a hosted environment and instances in cloud computing services. [1] Cold start (or cold boot) may also refer to a booting process of a single computer (or virtual machine). [2] In this case services and other startup applications are executed after reboot. The system is typically made available ...