Why is it that when electronic devices malfunction, turning them off then on works so frequently?

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E.g computers, Wi-Fi routers, tvs, consoles. All these items malfunction every once in while and all I do is turn them off then on again to get them working again. Why?

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Most computer equipment uses a form of short term memory called RAM. When your computer is acting up like this, it’s typically due to the computer ‘misremembering’ the data, with bits of the data changing ever so slightly in RAM.

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