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  2. Machine-check exception - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, the CPU will shut itself off once passing a thermal limit to avoid permanent damage. But they can also be caused by bus errors introduced by other failing components, like memory or I/O devices. Possible causes include: Poor CPU cooling due to a CPU heatsink and case fans (or filters) that's clogged with dust or has come loose.

  3. Ventoy - Wikipedia

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    Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for creating bootable USB media storage devices with files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi.Once Ventoy is installed onto a USB drive, there is no need to reformat the disk to update it with new installation files; it is enough to copy the .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), or .efi file(s) to the USB drive and boot from them directly.

  4. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Preview builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server (available from the Windows Insider program) feature a dark green background instead of a blue one. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 24 ] Windows 3.1, 95, and 98 supports customizing the color of the screen [ 28 ] whereas the color is hard-coded in the Windows NT family .

  5. Kernel panic - Wikipedia

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    10.0–10.1: The system displays text on the screen, giving details about the error, and becomes unresponsive. 10.2: Rolls down a black transparent curtain then displays a message on a white background informing the user that they should restart the computer. The message is shown in English, French, German and Japanese.

  6. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Typical POST screen (AMI BIOS) Typical UEFI-compliant BIOS POST screen (Phoenix Technologies BIOS) Summary screen after POST and before booting an operating system (AMI BIOS) A power-on self-test ( POST ) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on.

  7. Non-maskable interrupt - Wikipedia

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    With the introduction of Windows 2000, Microsoft allowed the use of an NMI to cause a system to either break into a debugger, or dump the contents of memory to disk and reboot. [ 3 ] Debugging NMIs have also been used by devices that allow leisure users and gamers to manipulate running programs.

  8. Control-flow integrity - Wikipedia

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    As of Windows 10 Creators Update (Windows 10 version 1703), the Windows kernel is compiled with CFG. [21] The Windows kernel uses Hyper-V to prevent malicious kernel code from overwriting the CFG bitmap. [22] CFG operates by creating a per-process bitmap, where a set bit indicates that the address is a valid destination. Before performing each ...

  9. Protection ring - Wikipedia

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    However, most general-purpose systems use only two rings, even if the hardware they run on provides more CPU modes than that. For example, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (and their predecessors) use only two rings, with ring 0 corresponding to kernel mode and ring 3 to user mode, [7] because earlier versions of Windows NT ran on processors ...