Re: CPU burns 3

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> writes:

> 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.

And the specs require that the hardware does not interfere (and turn
the fan back on when the cpu gets hot) when the software turns it
off. Anything else is not compliant with the specs.

MfG
        Goswin