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Blackout Defined
A condition in which the electricity level drops to zero; a complete loss of power. A number of factors cause a blackout, including natural disasters, such as a storm or an earthquake, or a failure in the power company's equipment, such as a transformer or a power line. A blackout might or might not damage a computer, depending on the state of the computer when the blackout occurs. As with switching a computer off before saving any data, a blackout will cause all unsaved data to be irretrievably lost. The most potentially damaging situation is one in which a blackout occurs while a disk drive is reading information from or writing information to a disk. The information being read or written will probably become corrupted, causing the loss of a small part of a file, an entire file, or the entire disk; the disk drive itself might suffer damage as a result of the sudden power loss. The only reliable means of preventing damage caused by a blackout is to use a battery-backed uninterruptible power supply (UPS). See also UPS. Compare brownout.
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Published August 27, 2008, 8:52 am, El Defensor Chieftain
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Published August 27, 2008, 5:35 am, Middletown Times Herald-Record
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Published August 22, 2008, 5:39 pm, El Defensor Chieftain
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Thu Aug 28
- Survive a Power Blackout - Wired How-To Wiki
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Tue Aug 26
- Windows XP blackout screen with no icons: What are you going to is suddenly your Windows XP going black with no icons visible? If you are experiencing this after Wednesday, 27th of August 2008, chances are Microsoft have something to do with it. A local newspaper source in Malaysia have rep...
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