On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:04:07PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I really have a hard time buying this.
Yes, I can understand that - I was the same until I saw the remnants of the display come up on the screen. > 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. > Nup - no real power storage devices in the machine at all, seriously. Technically DRAM is really a capacitor connected to a transistor - the charge in the capacitor in the dram cell determines the 1 or 0. How long the cell can retain that charge depends a lot on the particular cell - some hold the charge better than others. -- 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."
