From: "Ray Davison" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:40:58 -0800
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Troubleshooting a non-booting computer  [was: Driver
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J R FOX wrote:
> 
> Do systems of the last few years automatically shut themselves down, 
> if they get too hot . . . or will they let everything fry ?  I thought 
> I read something about a failsafe shutdown becoming standard ?

At what was probably the next to the last COMDEX, at an AMD sponsored 
panel, I cornered three AMD engineers, and told them that the word on 
the street was that AMD processors made good office heaters and just 
might melt down.  Their response was that AMD processors could not be 
damaged by their own heat; that they would shut down if they became too hot.

Also, Intel motherboards with four wire CPU fans have temperature 
shutdown controls in the BIOS.  You can select shutdown temperature and 
time delay before shutdown.

Ray