Comments on: How Ubuntu saved me a Bomb of money!

By: Night Eyes

Night Eyes — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:13:41 +0000

My windows xp computer autoshuts down when the cpu is around 90 degrees .

By: saurabh

saurabh — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:14:03 +0000

Hello All

Thanks to all you guys, i have learnt an important thing.
And that is that i needed lm sensors.
So i have installed them now.
Ubuntu community is all right….

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:52:39 +0000

Sorry in previous post I meant to say that they have windows utilities that are easier to install than lmsensors that make it trivial in windows to have your pc shut down or warn you if you can’t navigate your systems bios

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:51:03 +0000

No nix system out of the box will monitor cpu temps you have to have lmsensors installed and configured for that. Thank your systems BIOs for that save. Most boards actually have software that monitors the motherboards temps and fan speeds and will shut down or warn you also, and believe me as much as I would rather be running fedora or kubuntu those utilities are easier to set up than lmsensors…

By: saurabh

saurabh — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:22:09 +0000

Jerad

From your comment it’s not clear to me whether Ubuntu had a hand in shutting down the PC or was it done under motherboard’s control.

So please clarify as to WHO shut down my comp and should we give credit to Ubuntu or not??

By: Jerad Jacob

Jerad Jacob — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:34:39 +0000

This is not entirely true. The motherboard can only report the temperature of the processor and the speed/state of the fans. If the fans are malfunctioning, usually during boot it will warn you, but Windows XP does not have the same functionality as described above.

I work at a computer repair shop and, believe me, if it did have this functionality we wouldnt be so busy

By: Anurag Panda

Anurag Panda — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:24:23 +0000

This feature is usually on the motherboard which detects fan’s speed and CPU temp. In most motherboards, it the fan runs too slow it will generate a warning and in almost all motherboards computers shuts itself down when CPU temp ran too high.

By: Dr Saurabh Bhatia

Dr Saurabh Bhatia — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:10:49 +0000

Perhaps you are right

but as i said, i was not aware of it, having burnt my fingers earlier

By: LiveWire

LiveWire — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:34:45 +0000

I’ve never commented on a blog before, but in this case…

You’re talking about a hardware feature, not specifically a OS feature. It’s a most common feature on CPUs from the last five years.

But i really do love Ubuntu und Linux!