hardware upgrades

Xocyll

2004-09-24 14:30:36 UTC

***@f127.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Stephen Hart) looked up from
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Post by Stephen Hart

Sm> For that very reason, I tend to look for mainboards these
Sm> days which allow
Sm> one to monitor the vitals via software, and set off an alarm when
Sm> there's a problem. Fan speed, temperature, voltage levels... All
Sm> hail Asus.

I'm guessing you knew that it was actually Don who wrote that as
Or, to avoid confusion, should I be including all the "quote lines"
attributing text, at the beginning of my messages?

Unless you're snipping out all of a level of attribution, yes.

Post by Stephen Hart
S> my oldest machine is a 6 or 7 year old machine. the motherboard on that
S> one is fairly generic and it allows for monitoring what's going on...i
S> wouldn't be suprised if every motherboard now allows it...
Will the motherboard BIOS monitor temperature and the perform an
automatic shutdown by itself?

Depends on the manufacturer.
Some will just lower the clock speed to bring temperatures back into the
allowable range [IE my old AOpen AP5T Socket 7 K6/Pentium class board.]
Not a big help if the fan fails completely though.

Any board that came out since ATX should be able to turn the power off
completely in the event of overheating, should it be necessary.
You'll still have to check what any particular board/BIOS/monitoring
software is able to do.

Xocyll

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