Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:42:06 +0100 (MET) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] P4/Xeon Thermal LVT support |
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Depending on the reason of an overheat condition this may circumvent the problem or not. As I already stated you may have fire in the room (and not all computer rooms seem to have automatic extinguishing systems). Hardware failures are not to be treated lightly.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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