Critical temperature reached, shutting down

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:22:14PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
 > Is this supposed to be a sane default for AMD Duron/Athlon chips?
 > 
 >   Apr 20 11:44:04 rawhide kernel: Critical temperature reached (65 C), shutting down.
 >   Apr 20 11:44:04 rawhide shutdown: shutting down for system halt
 >   Apr 20 11:44:05 rawhide init: Switching to runlevel: 0
 > 
 > What's going wrong there in FC4T1 and T2 as opposed to FC3?
 > 
 > I can work around it by customising the trip_points in 
 > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/ but why is such a non-trivial step
 > necessary?

That does seem a little low. If memory serves me correctly, the
critical temperature for athlons is somewhere in the 75-80C range.

What were the contents of /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/ on the older kernels ?

If there's a BIOS update available, you may want to give that a try.

Please file a bug on this, and make sure it has linux-acpi at intel.com
in the Cc: box.

thanks,

		Dave