Re: cpu overheating

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Greg Trounson wrote:

To add further credibility to the dodgy software theory though, what hardware/firmware protection mechanisms do you know of that upon detecting high CPU temperature dump the user back to a login screen?

Returning to the login screen could be either a reboot or killing X, neither of which a sane BIOS would do in a CPU overheat event. Every BIOS I've ever seen shuts the machine down, which makes more sense if it's overheating.

It's more likely that the BIOS isn't able to slow the CPU sufficiently, and X or the desktop session segfaulted. Random shit tends to happen when CPUs get too hot, most of it causing applications to crash.


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