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    SubjectRe: Hardware designt to prevent Damages... [WAS: [patch 23/37] i2c-piix4: Blacklist two mainboards]
    Hello Jean,

    Thank you for explanation.

    OK, if I understand I2C right, there are more or less reserved addresses
    for each type of chip if I understand it right, but I have only an
    incomplete list of it. (gotten from the NXP website where the Tech-
    Support is very helpful. Same for Dallas/Maxim)

    Do you know, where I can get a full list of it?

    Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


    Am 2008-05-15 20:49:55, schrieb Jean Delvare:
    > In this particular case, the CPU was apparently damaged as the result
    > of accidental memory over-voltage. It is worth noting though that said
    > CPU had gone through intensive overclocking session beforehand, and
    > this might explain the death. Other CPUs are known to have gone through
    > the same experience and are still working.
    >
    > So, to clear up any misunderstanding: the CPU damage did not occur
    > because we used some odd CPU instruction sequence or anything like
    > that. The damage came to the CPU from other hardware on the board.
    >
    > To be a bit more technical, the design mistake (I think) that was made
    > by the designers of the motherboard in question, was to use an
    > I2C/SMBus chip on a PC motherboard, which uses SMBus receive byte and
    > SMBus send byte for control, and which lives at an I2C address which is
    > very common amongst hardware monitoring chip. The 4th factor being, of
    > course, that improperly programming the chip in question can result in
    > hardware damage. If only 3 of these 4 factors had been present, most
    > probably there would have been no issue in practice. But with all 4
    > factors, bad things just had to happen. And it's not just Linux, users
    > had similar problems running hardware monitoring tools under Windows
    > too.
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