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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. [1] POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detect if any hardware components are non-functional.
Watchdog timers are also used to monitor and limit software execution time on a normally functioning computer. For example, a watchdog timer may be used when running untrusted code in a sandbox , to limit the CPU time available to the code and thus prevent some types of denial-of-service attacks . [ 2 ]
Certain products related to computing, such as hardware, software, and smartphones, were mass-marketed and highly anticipated ahead of their launch, but are known to have failed commercially. Reasons for their failure include the products failing consumer expectations upon launch, the first round of units suffering defects, a controversy ...
Many software packages can read and display the EDID information, such as read-edid [2] for Linux and DOS, PowerStrip [3] for Microsoft Windows and the X.Org Server for Linux and BSD unix. Mac OS X natively reads EDID information and programs such as SwitchResX [ 4 ] or DisplayConfigX [ 5 ] can display the information as well as use it to ...
The first flight of the Ariane V rocket self-destructed due to an overflow occurring during a floating-point to integer conversion in the on-board guidance software. The same software had been used successfully in the Ariane IV program, but the Ariane V produced larger values for some variable, causing the overflow. [31] [32]
At first, several claims pointed at Windows Update. This was later recanted by Prevx as an erroneous report. [4] [5] Microsoft reported that no security update was causing the issue, and may be tied to malware. [6] [7] In other cases, the black screen was replaced with a blue screen of death. A black screen may also be caused by certain ...
The end of the holiday weekend added two fresh examples of a historic shift on Wall Street: More CEOs than ever are heading for the exits. Over the past 24 hours, the leaders of chipmaker Intel ...
As the software gets older it becomes less well-suited to its purpose and will eventually stop functioning as it should. Rebooting or reinstalling the software can act as a short-term fix. [1] A proactive fault management method to deal with the software aging incident is software rejuvenation. This method can be classified as an environment ...