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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