On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:05:48 -0500 "Mike Chalmers" <mikechalmers70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I ran "yum update", when it started to install the updates it > said something like cpu 0 overheating cpu 1 overheating. Then my That means your system reported via ACPI that an overheat situation was occurring. There are a couple of reasons this can happen, the first would be that your PC is broken - and the fact "yum update" triggered it is perhaps indicative of this. The second is that the ACPI code in the BIOS is buggy and the warning is bogus. There are multiple bands of overheating on a PC and properly designed and built systems will shut down without OS intervention when the temperature hits a hazardous level. This is done because the user may be running a legacy environment (eg booting Win95 to play a Win/XP incompatible game) and also because the OS may have crashed beforehand, and since errors such as memory errors may occur before the risk of damage, the OS is actually quite likely to have crashed > Don't get me wrong I think Linux is a gem. I like the GPL but I don't > like how company's can use people's software and make profit. The > people that make the software should be getting paid if anyone is > getting paid. We are 8) Alan
