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I’m surprised that the video RAM doesn’t decay almost instantly when the power shuts off, but not for five days?! From my understanding, the whole computer, inc
by colejohnson66 7y ago
I’m surprised that the video RAM doesn’t decay almost instantly when the power shuts off, but not for five days?! From my understanding, the whole computer, including the graphics card, shuts off when you power off a computer. That means that the video RAM is being written to non volatile storage somewhere.
My only guess: Do you have Windows Quick Start turned on? Because that doesn’t shut down the computer all the way; it just puts it in a deep sleep (i.e. the graphics card and its RAM are still powered)
- nh2 7y agoThe machine was rebooted directly from Windows into Linux, not power-shut-off. I'm not complaining about the lack of physical decay in DRAM, but about software.
- colejohnson66 7y agoHmm. That might be it. I don’t think the power gets cut when you reboot; the processor just resets itself to its starting state. I think the reason this hasn’t been addressed is because, from my understanding of the problem, people don’t reboot to a different OS running at a different resolution, so the problem was never noticed