On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:28:52AM -0500, Paul McCarty wrote: > We've observed the same thing with various boards and cpus (mainly > x86) that systems at POST consume a significant amount more power then > at idle after an operating system has been loaded. I have yet to find > a good explanation, but I suspect it has something to do with the BIOS > being in a busy polling loop. Bingo. I've seen this mentioned at hardware sites who note that testing heat from the BIOS screen is actually about as good as testing the heat at full load. That was the explanation they gave. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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