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Old 20th September 2010
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A sudden and quick power failure has the chance of corrupting memory contents undetectably but leaving the processor and other electronics running, perhaps there is enough juice in the capacitors?

So maybe some electronics detect this condition and reset to ROM defaults?

"CRC invalid, danger Will Robinson, danger!'

Then again, I have no idea, I have a system which survives those sudden glitches.. while others instantly power down or reboot.
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