On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:32:06PM +0100, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:
> 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.

How about write a 'envstatd', read the temperature form output of envstat,
if the temperature too high, then halt system automatically?