On Friday, 13 October 2006 06:56, Mathew Brown wrote: > Thanks. But is 80C safe for a CPU? As I mentioned, 70C is considered > dangerous for an Opteron chip. What type of temperatures can the > Turions and the C2D support? I think HP would force the fan at lower temperatures if 80C were considered as dangerous .... Greetings, Rafael > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:53:39 +0100, "Matthew Garrett" > <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:41:15PM -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > Thanks Matthew. Just out of curiosity, how did you find out about this > > > feature (forcing the fan at 80C)? Also, is this specific to HP or do > > > other vendors also support this? Finally, is 80C safe for the CPU > > > (Intel or AMD?)? I read that Opteron chips could be damaged if their > > > temperature reaches 70C. Thanks for your help. > > > > A certain amount of reverse engineering of HP hardware while I was > > trying to diagnose some fan problems before. The fan control chip that > > HP use is pretty standard, so I think there are docs around somewhere. > > > > -- > > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- > Mathew Brown > mathewbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx > -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
