From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mathew Brown" Subject: Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:56:58 -0700 Message-ID: <1160715418.20153.273234357@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1160663160.13196.273175261@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20061013012430.GA31911@srcf.ucam.org> <1160714475.18692.273233665@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20061013045339.GA534@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:33967 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbWJME45 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:56:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061013045339.GA534@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Thanks. But is 80C safe for a CPU? As I mentioned, 70C is considered dangerous for an Opteron chip. What type of temperatures can the Turions and the C2D support? On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:53:39 +0100, "Matthew Garrett" said: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:41:15PM -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: > > Thanks Matthew. Just out of curiosity, how did you find out about this > > feature (forcing the fan at 80C)? Also, is this specific to HP or do > > other vendors also support this? Finally, is 80C safe for the CPU > > (Intel or AMD?)? I read that Opteron chips could be damaged if their > > temperature reaches 70C. Thanks for your help. > > A certain amount of reverse engineering of HP hardware while I was > trying to diagnose some fan problems before. The fan control chip that > HP use is pretty standard, so I think there are docs around somewhere. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class