[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Zach Malone]

Let me revise that, the Athlon does not have cutouts, outside of the AMD
suggested one where the machine will not boot without a fan plugged in.
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Free" <mfree at planetc.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq


> My AMD machine, based on a Tyan Trinity S1590 and K6-2 450, has indeed 2
> sets of temperature settings, one alarm, one shutoff, measured by a
> board-mounted thermistor that contacts the underside of the chip die; and
> also monitors fan RPM.....
>
> Mike Free
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zach Malone" <Diff at Mac.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 3:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq
>
>
> >
> > It depends on your motherboard.  Many boards would trigger an alarm once
> the
> > chip reached a certain temperature, and shutdown the machine entirely at
> > another temperature, with those temperatures being definable in the
bios.
> > Unfortunatly, AMD machines lack said cutouts, and I dont know if the P4
> has
> > them.  It seems to me that that qualifies as a management system.
Though
> I
> > dunno how your defining this.
> >     Zach
> > > Unfortunately they're pretty much useless as management devices.  my
> > > point was entirely about providing management information for alarms,
> > > fan control, automated cut-off (not just of the CPU, but of the entire
> > > system, perhaps in a controlled fashion), etc.
> >
> >
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