Re: Hard Lockups can't happen (can they?)
On 28 Mar 2005, Paul Fraser wrote:
> It could just shut down or throttle itself. The P4s will do both.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Monday, 28 March 2005 3:08 AM
> To: Debian-User
> Subject: RE: Hard Lockups can't happen (can they?)
>
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 02:09 +1000, Paul Fraser wrote:
> > Not if the fan were stopped entirely.
>
> Unless the CPU is (by now) relatively old, wouldn't the CPU burn up?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> > Sent: Monday, 28 March 2005 1:59 AM
> > To: Debian-User
> > Subject: Re: Hard Lockups can't happen (can they?)
> >
> > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 11:46 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > On 27 Mar 2005, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 27 March 2005 11:25, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:19 am, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Make sure you didn't leave a cable touching the CPU fan. I did this
> > > once during an upgrade and the consequent overheating caused lockups.
> >
> > Wouldn't you hear buzzing noise from the fan slapping the cable?
>
There was nothing to hear because the fan was completely immobilized. It
didn't do any damage to the CPU; it just stopped working when doing
CPU-intensive stuff.
Some time ago I read on Tom's Hardware about experiments in which they
tried rurning off the fan on different processors. Intel just stopped
working, whereas AMD burnt out completely. Mine is a Celeron PIII.
Anthony
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