RE: Changing temperature trip points

Edmund Rhudy
2002-11-03T22:19:59Z

Before I discovered the problem with my computer, I'd run a kernel
compile that brought the core temperature up to over 75 C. A Celeron
reaches critical temperature with risk of heat death at 70 C. You can't
assume that all computers are going to have the same safeguards.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2002 5:12 PM
To: Edmund Rhudy
Cc: 'Pavel Machek'; 'Dominik Brodowski';
acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Changing temperature trip points

> My point is more that it might be better to assume that things won't
> work. This isn't a sound driver. This is something that the life of
> the computer depends on, and if somebody's processor melts down
> because they didn't read some piece of kernel documentation that they
> didn't even know existed, they're not likely to be particularly
> forgiving and think "Oh, it was my fault for not realising that my
> hardware was broken, I'll be more careful next time".

No. Worst that can happen is that your machine powers off. And thats
after machine already has at least one hardware bug.
Pavel