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  2. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    Data corruption refers to errors in computer data that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended changes to the original data. Computer, transmission, and storage systems use a number of measures to provide end-to-end data integrity, or lack of errors.

  3. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Under Windows NT, the second and third sections of the screen may contain information on all loaded drivers and a stack dump, respectively. The driver information is in three columns; the first lists the base address of the driver, the second lists the driver's creation date (as a Unix timestamp), and the third lists the name of the driver. [30]

  4. Device driver - Wikipedia

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    In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. [1] A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to ...

  5. Display driver - Wikipedia

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    The display driver may itself be an application-specific microcontroller and may incorporate RAM, Flash memory, EEPROM and/or ROM. Fixed ROM may contain firmware and display fonts. A notable example of a display driver IC is the Hitachi HD44780 LCD controller. Other controllers are KS0108, SSD1815 (graphics capable) and ST7920 (graphics capable)

  6. Category:Display drivers - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of integrated circuits for drive a display. Pages in category "Display drivers"

  7. Mirror driver - Wikipedia

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    A mirror driver is a display driver for a virtual device that mirrors the drawing operations of one or more additional physical display devices.. When video mirroring is active, each time the system draws to the primary video device at a location inside the mirrored area, a copy of the draw operation is executed on the mirrored video device in real-time.

  8. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields , or suffering a sharp impact or ...

  9. Memory leak - Wikipedia

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    A memory leak reduces the performance of the computer by reducing the amount of available memory. A memory leak can cause an increase in memory usage and performance run-time, and can negatively impact the user experience. [4]