aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom per jessen wrote john andersen wrote also switch console 10 watch machine working hard might see messages come shooting thru something triggers protective shutdown ive serial console hooked time see could catch anything kernelrelated nothing kernelissue id _something_ make settings eliminate overly protective shutdown sequences kde bios ive got cuptemp warning set 70c limits see anywhere phenom manual talk temptrip setting would make machine go straight state hard reset would bring doesnt sound like situation though believe thats thermalhibernation state intel introduced last 32bit processors amd introduced later models 32bit athlon line important thing remember scenario machine crashedit merely throttling cpu operation 0 hz cool enough resume processing registers lost imagine sort thing negative impact timekeeping least machine isnt crashed oh check manufacturer see later bios available yep already spoke gigabyte got latest betabios procedure bought new gigabyte board am2 socket use athlon64 dual core put phemon quad core later anticipate bios upgrade could difficult tue 05 aug 2008 171703 0500 opensuse ot much power pc really consume