[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, September 16, 2001 at 15:19:15 (-0400), Zach Malone wrote: ]
> 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.

no, it doesn't depend on the motherboard.  motherboard sensors are the
ones in the void of the socket, or in some LM78 chip sandwiched down
between two edge connectors, or off on the corner of the board, or in
amongst the 

The PPro and P-II sensors are purely thermal cutout devices and they are
specifically tuned well above the recommended operating range (130C for
the PPro).  they cause the processor to instantly shut down.  they are
useless as management devices.

> 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.

A management information system gives you real-time information, for
trend analysis, planning purposes, etc., and allows you to use the
information to directly, and perhaps automatically, employ external
controls to influence system operation or environmental conditions.

A cut-off switch is an emergency saftey device, not a management device.

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