cold boot

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English - Turkish
soğuk açış
English - English
To reboot a computer by turning it off and on
To start the computer by cycling the power A cold boot using a rescue disk (a clean floppy disk with boot instructions and virus scanning capabilities) is often necessary to clean or remove boot sector infectors
(1) First software initialization of the computer (2) Software loading and checking just after the computer has been turned on
To switch on a computer or start-up so the system may be loaded
Starting the computer from a power-off status If your computer is off, and you turn the switch on, you're performing a Cold Boot
The process of restarting a computer after it has been powered down
The process of starting-up a computer from a floppy disk, so that no other programs can load into memory besides those directed by the boot software contained on the floppy Because viruses must go resident in order to damage, and some viruses are particularly good at "stealthing" themselves while in memory, many experts believe a cold boot, followed by a scan, is the only way to make certain a computer is virus-free
computer is shut down completely, hard disk stops spinning, several seconds elapse at least before a restart is attempted
startup from a computer which was previously turned off
A method of resetting a Newton device that erases all data, removes any System Update installed, and sets the Newton OS back to factory defaults Requires the removal of all power sources to the Newton device See also Deep Reset, Soft Reset, Hard Reset, Power Reset, and System Reset Source: NFAQ
Personal computers can be either cold booted or warm booted A cold boot process begins with turning on the computer's power Typically, the cold boot process consists of basic hardware checking followed by loading of the operating system from disk into memory
Turning off all power to the computer, then switching it back on
When a computer is not on prior to booting When attempting to remove viruses, a cold boot is recommended to avoid problems with viruses that may be running in memory
The first time power is applied to a product, or a hard reset
Starting the computer by turning on the power or pressing the RESET button A cold boot makes the processor execute all of the diagnostics See boot and warm boot
reloading a computer's operating system by turning the power to the computer off and then back on
Starting the computer by turning power on
Starting or restarting a computer by resetting or turning on the power supply
cold boot

    Hyphenation

    Cold boot

    Turkish pronunciation

    kōld but

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkōld ˈbo͞ot/ /ˈkoʊld ˈbuːt/

    Etymology

    [ 'kOld ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English ceald, cald; akin to Old High German kalt cold, Latin gelu frost, gelare to freeze.
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