[mythtv-users] OT: How can I disable Thermal Throttling on a Pentium4

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 26, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:

> On 10/26/2010 01:45 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> on the same lines as the AMD Cool & Quiet thread, I seem the remote is slow to respond which I can only put down to this, anyone have any ideas howto disable this, theres nothing in the BIOS to turn it off :(
>> 
>> CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 4924376)
>> CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 4924376)
>> CPU1: Temperature/speed normal
>> CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
>> CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 4924382)
>> CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 4924382)
>> CPU1: Temperature/speed normal
>> CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Anthony
> 
> This appears to be a different problem.  This looks like your CPU is overheating.

What he said. Improve your cooling (new thermal grease? clean out dust-bunnies? add a cooling fan?), and/or replace with a processor model that didn't moonlight as a space heater... ;)

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