Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:25:29 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/SERIOUS] grilling troubled CPUs for fun and profit? |
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Hi!
> > Try it. I have had > > broken plastic heat-sink hold-downs let the entire heat-sink fall off > > the CPU. The machine just stops. > > Your single datapoint is just that, a single datapoint. > There are a number of reported cases of CPUs frying themselves. > Here's one: http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/09/17/hot_spot/page4.html > Google no doubt has more. > > Another anecdote: Upon fan failure, I once had an athlon MP *completely shatter* > (as in broke in two pieces) under extreme heat. > > This _does_ happen.
If it happens to you... you needed a new cpu anyway. Anything non-historical *has* thermal protection.
BTW I doubt those old athlons can be saved by cli; hlt . (Someone willing to try if old athlon can run cli; hlt code w/o heatsink?).
And no, we probably do not want to enter C2 or C3 from doublefault handler. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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