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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. Machine-check exception - Wikipedia

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    Overclocking beyond the highest clock rate at which the CPU is still reliable. Failing motherboard. Failing processor. Failing memory. Failing I/O controllers, on either the motherboard or separate cards. Failing I/O devices. Inadequate or failing power supply. Cooling problems are usually obvious upon inspection.

  4. Watchdog timer - Wikipedia

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    Upon first stage timeout, a corrective action is initiated and the next stage in the cascade is started. As each subsequent stage times out, it triggers a corrective action and starts the next stage. Upon final stage timeout, a corrective action is initiated, but no other stage is started because the end of the cascade has been reached.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Screen of Death ... and/or repair the TiVo Media File System. [2] [3] A Blue Screen of Death on a Windows Insider build appears as green instead of blue, ...

  8. Fatal system error - Wikipedia

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    Instead, it displays the infamous "blue screen of death" (BSoD) and allows the user to attempt to continue. The Windows DDK and the WinDbg documentation both have reference information about most bug checks. The WinDbg package is available as a free download and can be installed by most users. The Windows DDK is larger and more complicated to ...

  9. 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.