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  2. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Power supply, system board problem, disconnected CPU, or disconnected speaker Continuous beep: Power supply, system board, RAM or keyboard problem Repeating short beeps: Power supply, system board or keyboard problem 1 long, 1 short beep: System board problem 1 long, 2 short beeps: Display adapter problem (MDA, CGA) 1 long, 3 short beeps

  3. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    The startup function startup_32() for the kernel (also called the swapper or process 0) establishes memory management (paging tables and memory paging), detects the type of CPU and any additional functionality such as floating point capabilities, and then switches to non-architecture specific Linux kernel functionality via a call to start ...

  4. Meltdown (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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    Meltdown exploits a race condition, inherent in the design of many modern CPUs.This occurs between memory access and privilege checking during instruction processing. . Additionally, combined with a cache side-channel attack, this vulnerability allows a process to bypass the normal privilege checks that isolate the exploit process from accessing data belonging to the operating system and other ...

  5. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    Because of these problems, synthetic benchmarks such as Dhrystone are now generally used to estimate computer performance in commonly used applications, and raw IPS has fallen into disuse. The term is commonly used in association with a metric prefix (k, M, G, T, P, or E) to form kilo instructions per second ( kIPS ), mega instructions per ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. System time - Wikipedia

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    Closely related to system time is process time, which is a count of the total CPU time consumed by an executing process.It may be split into user and system CPU time, representing the time spent executing user code and system kernel code, respectively.

  8. Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia

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    The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, [1] Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse [2] [3]) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.

  9. Pentium FDIV bug - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Nicely, a professor of mathematics at Lynchburg College, had written code to enumerate primes, twin primes, prime triplets, and prime quadruplets.Nicely noticed some inconsistencies in the calculations on June 13, 1994, shortly after adding a Pentium system to his group of computers, but was unable to eliminate other factors (such as programming errors, motherboard chipsets, etc.) until ...