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SubjectRe: [RFC/SERIOUS] grilling troubled CPUs for fun and profit?
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
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