Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] P4/Xeon Thermal LVT support | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:16:16 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > handler in fact only displays a warning, by which time the hardware is > > already handling the condition. > > How can't it be critical? Your system is overheating. It is about to > fail -- depending on the configuration, it'll either crash or be shut down
Neither. It will drop to a much lower clock speed. You can set it to overheat and blow up but thats a mostly undocumented mtrr 8) The default behaviour is to throttle back hard
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