[plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound

[Cameron Patrick]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Doesn't happen to me, with one exception; where the fan failed on a P4's 
> heatsink, the el-cheapo motherboard didn't shut down (instructed the P4 
> to keep going at full blast, whatever, it didn't throttle back), and 
> the P4 kept running until a plastic clip softened and gave way, dumping 
> the heatsink onto the back of the video card and killing the video 
> card, CPU and motherboard, probably in that order. The drives
> survived.

Impressive.

On the opposite extreme, I've accidentally unplugged the CPU fan on a
6-series P4 (the ones that put out close to twice as much heat as an
Athlon) on an Intel motherboard.  It ran fine for several hours and
then shut down.  When I went to power it up again, the BIOS informed
that a "thermal event" had happened last time the machine was on and
that I should check the heatsink.  Ooops.

Cameron.