I really have a hard time buying this. I can see how you ended up with some crap in that memory upon reboot but I fail to see how that memory could retain its contents. Not knowing the situation you might have had some huge caps on that machine; or even battery backed up ram. This combined with low power mode content can be stored for days (we do that on RAID cards). But that is also ram that does not require a clock to retain its contents.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:50:06AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:12:58PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > And the power plug wasn't plugged in right? > > > > Correct. We are not talking PC DRAM here - this was custom hardware > with a circuit breaker that really cut power to everything. Often > when you powered it up before the firmware got around to forcing a > clear on the display ram (yes, the display ram was DRAM) you could > clearly see parts of the display. To be honest it surprised the hell > out of me the first time I saw it too. > > -- > Brett Lymn > "Warning: > The information contained in this email and any attached files is > confidential to BAE Systems Australia. If you are not the intended > recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email or any > attachments is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email > in error, please notify us immediately. VIRUS: Every care has been > taken to ensure this email and its attachments are virus free, > however, any loss or damage incurred in using this email is not the > sender's responsibility. It is your responsibility to ensure virus > checks are completed before installing any data sent in this email to > your computer."
