Hi,

On 10 Jan 2002 at 9:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> yes. i read report (in polish) that after cooler failure CPU just
> melted the socked and almost made fire as it even doesn't have
> HALT-on-overheat feature present on every intel CPU (beginning from
> 486 probably)

The K7M and the new AMD chipset based boards from Asus claim to stop 
the CPU, allthough I do not think they will be able to shut down the 
system properly without drivers.

mike