Does restarting your computer clear the memory?

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I have Windows 2000, and I am wondering if I restart the computer (via Start
button->Shut Down->Restart), will that clear all of my computer's memory?

My computer has non-ECC RAM (my Abit KT7-RAID mobo doesn't even support ECC),
and I've seen some old posts that talk about how normal everyday radiation can
corrupt a computer's memory. I like to leave my computer on all the time, so
I'm thinking maybe restarting Windows once a day might be a good idea just to
make sure that nothing in memory is corrupted. But if restarting doesn't
clear the memory (maybe Windows keeps things in memory so it can restart
faster?), then I'd have to actually shut down and turn my computer back on.
 
I have Windows 2000, and I am wondering if I restart the computer (via Start
button->Shut Down->Restart), will that clear all of my computer's memory?

My computer has non-ECC RAM (my Abit KT7-RAID mobo doesn't even support ECC),
and I've seen some old posts that talk about how normal everyday radiation can
corrupt a computer's memory. I like to leave my computer on all the time, so
I'm thinking maybe restarting Windows once a day might be a good idea just to
make sure that nothing in memory is corrupted. But if restarting doesn't
clear the memory (maybe Windows keeps things in memory so it can restart
faster?), then I'd have to actually shut down and turn my computer back
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Yes, restarting the computer will reload things back into the memory.

I would not worry about restarting to clear the memory due to radiation.
YOu probably stand more of a chance of reading a bad bit of memory back from
the hard drive than you do of having stray radiation corrupt the ram. I
don't know if it was ever proven but it was reported long ago about an alpha
partical would corrupt a bit in a computers memory that came from the
material that encased the memory chips. This was way back in the first days
of the PCs.

More like faulty programming will do strange things to the memory and
require a restart.
Not too much you can do about that...Think that Excell had a bad habit if
you opened and closed it several times it would not relaese the memory for
other programs to use and you ran out of memory. Then you had to do a
restart. Excel was not the only program to do that.
 
You do NOT have to reboot your computer daily to 'clear the memory.' Yes,
rebooting does clear the memory but if you're running XP it does not require
daily rebooting to 'fix' the memory.

Where did you hear this???
 
You do NOT have to reboot your computer daily to 'clear the memory.' Yes,
rebooting does clear the memory but if you're running XP it does not require
daily rebooting to 'fix' the memory.

Where did you hear this???
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Here is one example:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...f&[email protected]

Other examples from google groups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...memory+(radiation+OR+rays)&btnG=Google+Search


And memory corruption from cosmic rays is independent of the operating system.
Windows XP systems can be affected too.
 
You're running Win2K? I reboot the 2K machine here maybe once a month.

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: I have Windows 2000, and I am wondering if I restart the computer (via
Start
: button->Shut Down->Restart), will that clear all of my computer's memory?
:
: My computer has non-ECC RAM (my Abit KT7-RAID mobo doesn't even support
ECC),
: and I've seen some old posts that talk about how normal everyday radiation
can
: corrupt a computer's memory. I like to leave my computer on all the time,
so
: I'm thinking maybe restarting Windows once a day might be a good idea just
to
: make sure that nothing in memory is corrupted. But if restarting doesn't
: clear the memory (maybe Windows keeps things in memory so it can restart
: faster?), then I'd have to actually shut down and turn my computer back
on.
:
 
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