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  2. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Macs made after 1987 but prior to 1998, upon failing the POST, will immediately halt with a "death chime", which is a sound that varies by model; it can be a simple beep, a car crash sound, the sound of shattering glass, a short musical tone, or more. On the screen, if working, will be the Sad Mac icon, along with two hexadecimal strings, which ...

  3. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the kernel starts the session manager (smss.exe), which begins the login process. After the user has successfully logged into the machine ...

  4. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    As mentioned earlier, the insider builds of Windows 10 and later, as well as Windows Server 2016 and later, display a green screen. [26] [27] [24] Windows 10 and later (and Windows Server 2016 and later) also display an orange screen in an extremely rare case where a hardware issue with the GPU or a graphics driver problem is encountered. [47]

  5. System crash screen - Wikipedia

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  6. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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    A modern PC is configured to attempt to boot from various devices in a certain order. If a computer is not booting from the device desired, such as the floppy drive, the user may have to enter the BIOS Setup function by pressing a special key when the computer is first turned on (such as Delete, F1, F2, F10 or F12), and then changing the boot order. [6]

  7. Booting - Wikipedia

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    In this example of dual booting, the user chooses by inserting or removing the DVD from the computer, but it is more common to choose which operating system to boot by selecting from a boot manager menu on the selected device, by using the computer keyboard to select from a BIOS or UEFI Boot Menu, or both; the Boot Menu is typically entered by ...

  8. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter. [7]: 971 Since Windows 7, however, Windows Setup creates, by default, a separate system partition that is not given an identifier and therefore is hidden. The boot partition is still given "C:" as its identifier.

  9. DirectX Diagnostic Tool - Wikipedia

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    If the installed display driver has passed Windows Hardware Quality Labs testing, DirectX Diagnostic Tool will display this result on the right side of the window. The Music tab displays information about the computer's MIDI settings, and lists different music-related software and hardware on your computer.