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Debugging Methodology — question 4 of 10

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A board resets itself at unpredictable times — sometimes within an hour, sometimes not for a full day, with no obvious pattern. Before you touch the schematic, swap a capacitor, or change any code, what do you need to establish first, and specifically what would you do to try to make this failure happen more often and more predictably?

How sure are you?

Being confidently wrong costs more mastery than admitting a guess — that is deliberate, and it is how misconceptions get found.

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