On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:29:47AM -0800, Allen Brown wrote:
> A more likely cause of the fail is that the RAM got hit by
> a cosmic ray or an alpha particle.  That causes a lot of
> electrons (or holes) to be formed and can easily flip a
> memory bit.  The result is a soft fail.

*flip flip flip*  Solar flares.
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