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Damage of physical memory and hard disk
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| As time goes, is that true that parts of physical memory and hard disk will
be damaged?
How does this affect running of applications?
Thanks in advance!
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| Victor Bazarov 2006-01-28, 7:07 pm |
| nly wrote:
> As time goes, is that true that parts of physical memory and hard
> disk will be damaged?
Everything tends to deteriorate. Especially something that either
is moving or under heat, electric current, or both.
> How does this affect running of applications?
They usually stop running. Damage beyond a certain point requires
replacing the damaged parts.
I am unable to understand how this relates to Visual C++, though.
V
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| Bruno van Dooren 2006-01-29, 3:57 am |
| hard disks are high risk, simply because they contain moving parts. if you
run checkdisk from time to time, you might start seeing reports of bad
sectors. replacing it before it breaks completely saves you lots of trouble
later on.
bad RAM usually manifests itself in blue screens whenever there is a lot of
memory activity.
compiling a large project will often trigger a crash if you have bad RAM.
just replace it.
all things break after a fashion. that is why i prefer spending a bit more
on quality parts, rather than buying no-name stuff.
kind regards,
Bruno.
"nly" <nlyee2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> As time goes, is that true that parts of physical memory and hard disk
> will
> be damaged?
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> How does this affect running of applications?
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> Thanks in advance!
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| Jim Langston 2006-01-29, 7:04 pm |
| "nly" <nlyee2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> As time goes, is that true that parts of physical memory and hard disk
> will
> be damaged?
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> How does this affect running of applications?
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> Thanks in advance!
Of course. Everything breaks down eventually.
How this effects running of applications depends on what actually breaks
down. Hard drives can develop bad sectors where the data can't be read or
written to correctly. If you don't happen to use that section of the hard
drive you won't know until you do. Or the hard drive's motor can go out and
fail totally. Then your machine won't boot anymore. Or the head of the
hard drive can get sticky (step motor going out) and it doesn't align up
with sectors anymore and you get read/write errors, etc...
When memory goes out it depends on how bad it is. I had one machine that
just started acting weird as heck. It was acting so weird I decided it had
a virus and went to reinstall windows on it. It acted weird even during the
install. Finally I went out and bought 2 new memory chips and swapped them
and it was fine again. The memory went out in some way and for whatever
reason wasn't failing CRC, either the chips or the machine didn't support
it, I dont' know.
Sometimes a chip went out and my computer got a bios error about memory
failing a CRC check.
It all depends on how bad it goes out and in what method. But eventually
all hardware will fail.
I still think you're a troll though.
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| Alexander Grigoriev 2006-01-30, 4:00 am |
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"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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> "nly" <nlyee2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%236a5CZEJGHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> fail totally. Then your machine won't boot anymore. Or the head of the
> hard drive can get sticky (step motor going out) and it doesn't align up
> with sectors anymore and you get read/write errors, etc...
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For >12 years there's no step motors in hard drives anymore... The heads
align on the servo written on the platters... OTOH, the track density is
several per one micron.
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