Patent ID: 8959379
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A thermal protection method for a computer system comprising at least a processor comprises: monitoring a temperature and a loading of the processor via a system firmware in the computer system; obtaining a current performance state level and at least one operable performance state level of the processor when the system firmware determines that the temperature of the processor exceeds a first predetermined value and the loading of the processor exceeds a second predetermined value, wherein the performance state level is associated to a frequency of the processor; determining whether frequency of the performance state level is the lowest among the frequency of the operable performance state levels according to the performance state level and the operable performance state levels; and keeping on monitoring the temperature and the loading of the processor when frequency of the performance state level is the lowest among the frequency of the operable performance state levels, or setting the processor to a first performance state level when the frequency of the performance state level is not the lowest among the frequency of the operable performance state levels, wherein the first performance state level is one of the operable performance state levels, and the frequency of the first performance state level is lower than the frequency of the performance state level, so as to lower the temperature of the computer system.