>PS: This seems very strange. What if machine is so crashed so that it
>can no longer shutdown properly. Will that mean that its CPU will
>damage itself?
No, the ACPI standard requires CPUs to shut themselves down before
any damage would occur from overheading. Well, at least the 1.0b
version of the standard did; I haven't read 2.0 yet.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin
http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
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