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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. 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.

  4. Microsoft's ‘Blue Screen of Death’ makes a return to ...

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    And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.

  5. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Screen of Death (also called BSoD, or stop error) is a common name for a screen displayed by the Microsoft Windows operating system when a critical system ...

  6. Watchdog timer - Wikipedia

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    One pin receives the timer restart ("kick" [a]) signal from the computer; another pin outputs the timeout signal. A watchdog timer ( WDT , or simply a watchdog ), sometimes called a computer operating properly timer ( COP timer ), [ 1 ] is an electronic or software timer that is used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions.

  7. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In the Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [2] command-line interfaces, the timeout command pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds. [3] [4] In POP connections, the server will usually close a client connection after a certain period of inactivity (the timeout period). This ensures that connections do not persist forever, if ...

  8. Windows wait cursor - Wikipedia

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    The Windows wait cursor, informally the Blue circle of death (known as the hourglass cursor until Windows Vista) is a throbber that indicates that an application is busy performing an operation. It can be accompanied by an arrow if the operation is being performed in the background.

  9. Trump's plan to end daylight saving: Will 4:30 a.m. be the ...

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    For most of standard time months, solar noon comes close to 12 p.m. on the wall clock. But during daylight saving months, that midpoint usually comes after 1 p.m.