are you sure it's not hibernating? On 7/2/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a PC that's on the fritz and will randomly give me the BSOD > with a memory fault, "trying to access paged memory in a non-paged > area" after telling me it found new USB or PCI hardware even though I > didn't touch it. Once it crashes I have to try to reboot about 10 > times before it'll come up (I just get a blank screen otherwise). > > But here's the REALLY WEIRD part: > > Today I put the machine on standby. When I tried to wake it, it never > came back so I hit the power button to shut it down. Then I removed > the battery, pushed a bunch of buttons including the power button, > replaced the battery and tried to reboot. > > It took about 10 tries before it actually booted, the other times > displaying nothing on the screen. So finally it comes back up and > looks like it's booting ...BUT! > > It asks me to log in, which I do. AND THEN IT RETURNS ME TO MY > SESSION! All my previously opened apps, their state, everything. And > I was able to work for about 5 min before the BSOD again. > > How can a PC do that? I thought that when you shut it down, > especially if you remove the battery, that it clears RAM. Where is it > storing my session? Is there some ROM session storage that's going > on? > > I thought PCs read software from disk into RAM and held session info > there such that when you lose RAM you lose your session. Apparently > this is not the case? > >
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