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ACPI tools 1.3 (Announce)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 16.06.2026, 00:28

In the past I announced here my utility ACPI tools which started as a utility for detection the number of processor cores but later developped to quite feature rich utility for examining the ACPI informationm and for restarting a switchong off the computer.
Now, for version 1.3 I added the detection of TPM (trusted platform module) and functions for throttling the processor which effectively slows down the CPU.
Unfortunately, the throttling does not work on every machine (with ACPI) but only with older ones which have the processor block defined in the _PR block and not in the _SB block.
In practice, it will work on machines with ACPI 1, usually with ACPI 2 and it is very uncertain whether it will work on newer machines.
Download here

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Complete thread:

• ACPI tools 1.3 - Laaca, 16.06.2026, 00:28 (Announce)
  • ACPI tools 1.3 - mceric, 16.06.2026, 01:14
    • ACPI tools 1.3 - Laaca, 16.06.2026, 16:27
      • ACPI tools 1.3 - RayeR, 16.06.2026, 19:14
        • ACPI tools 1.3 - Laaca, 16.06.2026, 22:05
        • ACPI tools 1.3 - Zyzzle, 16.06.2026, 22:59
  • ACPI tools 1.3b - Laaca, 16.06.2026, 23:04
    • ACPI tools 1.3b - RayeR, 18.06.2026, 06:53
      • ACPI tools 1.3c - Laaca, 20.06.2026, 22:55