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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:42:06 +0100 (MET)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] P4/Xeon Thermal LVT support
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> >  How can't it be critical?  Your system is overheating.  It is about to
> > fail -- depending on the configuration, it'll either crash or be shut down
> 
> Neither. It will drop to a much lower clock speed. You can set it to overheat
> and blow up but thats a mostly undocumented mtrr 8) The default behaviour is
> to throttle back hard

 Depending on the reason of an overheat condition this may circumvent the
problem or not.  As I already stated you may have fire in the room (and
not all computer rooms seem to have automatic extinguishing systems). 
Hardware failures are not to be treated lightly. 

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+  Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland   +
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