Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:42:42 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Lid support for ACPI |
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Hi!
> >PS: This seems very strange. What if machine is so crashed so that it > >can no longer shutdown properly. Will that mean that its CPU will > >damage itself? > > No, the ACPI standard requires CPUs to shut themselves down before > any damage would occur from overheading. Well, at least the 1.0b > version of the standard did; I haven't read 2.0 yet.
BTW shut themselves down to halt, or shut themselves to *very* low speed? Slow down to 10% speed is what my toshiba does. Is there way back from such mode? Pavel
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