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gopher_yarrowzoo
12-14-2004, 06:19 PM
I have one of these mobos
Chipset is Via KM400/400A with onboard network, 5.1 sound, Video
Support x8 Agp etc..
Sometimes, just sometimes I get a incorrect CPU temp read.
I got a XP2200+ running in it (darn thing had run long enough for Win98se - I know but it I know it all works lol - to trip it's total CPU on time counter) I needed to reset it to modify the Network speed to fix it at 100 Full Duplex . On reset all worked fine then after maybe 20-30 minutes my monitor program alerted me by beeping the main speaker, wondered what it was. Remote Admin'd it & noticed it was running at 69 Deg C - so shut down D2oL and run CPU Idle Extreme while I hunted for Screwdriver to get the side panel off sharpish noticed it went down to like 56 C and hung there for a while
I obviously though "ack" fan Fail or failing but no it wasn't loaded up MBM 5 and about 2 updates later once I got it's dashboard up CPU temp suddenly reads 35 C
Anyone Any Ideas as to why the funk it should do this

gopher_yarrowzoo
01-09-2005, 03:40 PM
hmm me looked again at it as it did it again last night looks like a weird bit glitch cos the temp goes down by a very specific (or so i think) number of Deg C it looks like it's mis reading it by 34 Deg i.e bits 5 & 1 If bit 0 =1 etc...
Any more ideas or should I just ignore it and leave Motherboard Monitor loaded..

Bok
01-09-2005, 04:10 PM
I'm pretty sure I had something similar on one of those. I ended up just diabling the shutdown temp in the bios and ignoring it :)

Bok :cheers: