Re: CPU burns 3
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:35:36PM +0200, antonio giulio wrote:
> Ok, it's impossible that software damages hardware...
It is very much possible. Old monitors would break when sent too high
a refresh rate, old hard disks break when asked to do a read or write
move beyond their size and ... the fans in modern systems can be
software-controlled. So if you turn the fan off, you turn the fan
off. And the system overheats.
--
Lionel
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