Re: Changing temperature trip points

Dominik Brodowski
2002-11-03T22:29:41Z

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:22:22PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Actually, I doubt that it will power off. Assume your BIOS vendor set
> > critical to 110°C (my vendor did so). And the CPU burns through at 70°C.
> > Let's assume no thermal management objects like fans exist. Without custom
> > polling, a trip point of 65°C for critical has no, really no effect. The
> > CPU melts down. Or am I missing something?
>
> Yes, you are missing reality.
>
> Try stopping your fan and see what happens. I believe you'll see your
> notebook powering off itself at <90C, low enough to keep cpu alive.

I hope that such a safeguard is present. But I don't know it. And I won't
test it. Better be safe than sorry.

Dominik