RAM can be funny sometimes... I had an AMD T-bird 1.3GHz awhile back when the heatsink fan died on it. It left a slightly charred area on my motherboard as well as melted wires that were touching the heatsink.
Anyways, I took out my memory and put it in my new computer. The three PC-133 512Mb DIMMs now only run at PC-100 speed. There's also an increased frequency in Blue Screens of Death (or "Blue Screen Crash Events" as M$ likes to put it). A friend of mine told me that RAM usually receives a voltage spike when the CPU dies. I don't know for certain, but it seems to fit.
My point is, is that memory and possibly other components might continue to operate. However, there could be slight damage that will cause errors and the like (i.e. BSOD).
Now I gotta save some money for some new DIMMs.:-)
Most weather balloons actually use Helium. The volume of He in the balloon expands with increased altitude which results in cooling of the gas... No "hot air" in this one as temperatures can drop to minus 125 degrees Celsius in polar mesospheric clouds that form over the summertime polar caps. However, most WX balloons don't get much higher than the stratosphere.
Yes, I realise it was pun... just thought I throw in some factoids.:-)
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Perhaps that too, but "Blue Screen Crash Event" is what they refer to them in Windows XP crash reports.
Anyways, I took out my memory and put it in my new computer. The three PC-133 512Mb DIMMs now only run at PC-100 speed. There's also an increased frequency in Blue Screens of Death (or "Blue Screen Crash Events" as M$ likes to put it). A friend of mine told me that RAM usually receives a voltage spike when the CPU dies. I don't know for certain, but it seems to fit.
My point is, is that memory and possibly other components might continue to operate. However, there could be slight damage that will cause errors and the like (i.e. BSOD).
Now I gotta save some money for some new DIMMs. :-)
I hope it's not just a bunch of hot air!
:-)
Most weather balloons actually use Helium. The volume of He in the balloon expands with increased altitude which results in cooling of the gas... No "hot air" in this one as temperatures can drop to minus 125 degrees Celsius in polar mesospheric clouds that form over the summertime polar caps. However, most WX balloons don't get much higher than the stratosphere.
Yes, I realise it was pun... just thought I throw in some factoids.