Microsoft agrees - there's a hardware fault that leads to an "unacceptable" failure rate.

An operator would stand at the front panel to bootstrap the computer, to debug running programs, and to find hardware faults.

Flicker, a flashing effect displeasing to the eye, often occurs through flaws in software, with no hardware faults involved.

But however powerful Nuada was, her hardware faults meant she didn't know what Katana had just discovered.

Ive definately got the fear from previous hardware faults and others experiences, cant help but feel it could just stroke out again at any given moment.

"I have ample evidence that hardware faults can be generated without too much difficulty," he said in an electronic mail message.

My five bucks says the fault's either in the communications protocols or else that it's a hardware fault after all.

We've either got a hardware fault or there's a bug in the initialization routine.

There were dozens of unique software and hardware faults to tackle.

The speaker allows software and firmware to provide auditory feedback to a user, such as to report a hardware fault.