CPU idles at 65C, HSF works fine

[Bgreen22]

This is really driving me mad. It is a P4 3.0prescott on a msi 661fm2-
lsr board. When I switch everything (memory, power supply, cpu, hsf) to
my soyo board I get idle temps at 40C.

In bios - pc health - all the voltages are in range, and besides this is
the second board that is doing the same thing.

Moreover, putting a 2.4Ghz P4 in the msi board is no problem. It idles
around 40C also.

The msi mobo is rated up to a 3.4ghz prescott.

I haven't been able to upgrade the bios, but I can't believe they would
ship a product that advertised a prescott, and then couldn't handle one.

Any advice would be very much appreciated....

 

[EdwardH]

This is really driving me mad. It is a P4 3.0prescott on a msi 661fm2-

lsr board. When I switch everything (memory, power supply, cpu, hsf) to
my soyo board I get idle temps at 40C.

Ignore it.

I switched motherboards (being careful to apply thermal paste and what
not) and all of a sudden my processor was 15 degrees warmer.

Yeah right. Some boards just have shitty sensors.

 

[Andy]

I haven't been able to upgrade the bios, but I can't believe they would
ship a product that advertised a prescott, and then couldn't handle one.

Any advice would be very much appreciated....

When you say it cannot handle it would I be correct in saying it is
crashing all the time ?

If it is not crashing then there is no problem and the sensors are just
wrong.

Hope this helps

Andy

 

[Jan Alter]

Hi,
Last year I bought this for an AMD Athlon XP 2700 system I was putting
together.
MSI KT6V-LSR Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KT600 ATX AMD Motherboard -

It ran fine with the exception that the idle temp of the cpu was 58 C and
running about 63 C under moderate load. It really annoyed the hell out of me
since I was not overclocking. I went back to newegg.com and picked up one of
their $30 Thermaltake HSF's and installed it. The temp dropped to 55 C and
60 C under load. I think we've validated each other. As the guys say "shitty
sensors".

Thanks for posting. I feel better already.

 

[Michael Hawes]

This is really driving me mad. It is a P4 3.0prescott on a msi 661fm2-
lsr board. When I switch everything (memory, power supply, cpu, hsf) to
my soyo board I get idle temps at 40C.

In bios - pc health - all the voltages are in range, and besides this is
the second board that is doing the same thing.

Moreover, putting a 2.4Ghz P4 in the msi board is no problem. It idles
around 40C also.

The msi mobo is rated up to a 3.4ghz prescott.

I haven't been able to upgrade the bios, but I can't believe they would
ship a product that advertised a prescott, and then couldn't handle one.

Any advice would be very much appreciated....

Check cooler is making FULL contact with CPU. Check retaining screws for
mounting frame are FULLY engaged so that they do not foul on HS. If you
remove HS is the compound completely even and thin layer? Update the BIOS,
may be a problem reporting temp on Prescott. Does the HS feel like 65C? If
not, wip off HS after shutdown and feel the CPU, if not hot, is misreading
sensor, if hot, is poor contact on HS.
Mike.