[Gllug] Re: Still interpreting output from "sensors"

[Mark Preston]

Frank Scott wrote:
 >The Opterons and AMD64s now have an on chip thermal diode and should

>shutdown fast enough with a cooling failure.

Does this shutdown now also preserve data integrity?
Following their overheating problems (see previous email) AMD set new guidelines for all motherboard

manufacturers. They were to be integrated with a special electronic

switching mechanism to protect the CPU from overheating.

The good news about this solution was that it guaranteed that the CPU

would survive; the bad news was that data safety was no longer

guaranteed. The PC was not shut down properly, instead it was

switched off quite abruptly.
Regards,
Mark


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