[Wine] cpu overload

[John Drescher]

BTW, What processor do you have? 60C is normal for laptops and some Pentium4
chips.

John

On 10/10/06, Thomas H. George <tom at tomgeorge.info> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:27:46AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Fix your hardware. No software package should ever cause the cpu to
> > >overheat till it needs to shutdown. This is either a hardware problem
> or
> > >your room is way too hot. The first thing I would do is check the cpu
> fan
> > >and blow the dust out of it.
> >
> >
> > When I think of it there are a few other options. Some computers have
> > software controlled fans so if the fan is not being controlled correctly
> by
> > software this can happen. Also are you 100% sure that the cpu is
> overheating
> > sometimes temp sensors do not read correctly.
> >
> > John
>
> Yes, I'm sure.  When I shutdown I checked BIOS before rebooting.  By
> that time the cpu temperature had dropped to 59 C. (The alarm is set for
> 60 C.) and both the cpu fan and the case fan were running normally.  I
> watched until the cpu temperature was down to 55 C before rebooting.
>
> Note that this problem has never occurred before and only recurred when
> I restarted the wine application.
>
> Tom
>
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John M. Drescher
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