yikes 257 degrees reported on MBM

[mike6]

hi there

wow i get an alarm on Motherboard Monitor for temp sensor 3 @
257 deg F ? i'm running an amd xp3200 + on an a7n8x-e deluxe?
is this bad?

 

[Ben Pope]

hi there

wow i get an alarm on Motherboard Monitor for temp sensor 3 @
257 deg F ? i'm running an amd xp3200 + on an a7n8x-e deluxe?
is this bad?

125°C is about the limit of any silicon-based semiconductor device (it's
about the top end that an Si thermometer can do). Most consumer
computational devices will be rated considerably lower than this. Your CPU
would be around 85°C.

If the system is stable, I would strongly suspect a faulty reading rather
than temperatures that high.

Given that your motherboard isn't supported in MBM5:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/comp/asus.html

Hmm, actually, it looks like it is, must be new.

Anyway, given that there is no sensor3 supported on your motherboard, that
pretty much confirms the faulty reading argument.

My advice? Prevent the reading of that "sensor" from sounding the alarm.

On the classic A7N8X (Deluxe) you do have 3 readings: Diode, Socket and
Case/Motherboard.

P.S. Is anybody else aware that google can do this:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=257f+in+c

Give it a play, it's knows quite a few units.

Ben

 

[Kylesb]

| hi there
|
| wow i get an alarm on Motherboard Monitor for temp sensor 3 @
| 257 deg F ? i'm running an amd xp3200 + on an a7n8x-e deluxe?
| is this bad?
|

It's quite good if you have a bag of marshmallows and a stick.

 

[rstlne]

125°C is about the limit of any silicon-based semiconductor device (it's
about the top end that an Si thermometer can do). Most consumer
computational devices will be rated considerably lower than this. Your CPU
would be around 85°C.

If the system is stable, I would strongly suspect a faulty reading rather
than temperatures that high.

Given that your motherboard isn't supported in MBM5:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/comp/asus.html

Hmm, actually, it looks like it is, must be new.

Yea..
Some of the last few to be out there..
the Dev of MBM has called it quits.. so no more new stuff

 

[Ben Pope]

Yea..
Some of the last few to be out there..
the Dev of MBM has called it quits.. so no more new stuff

What a shame, but I can understand why... he's probably put under a lot of
pressure to support each and every new board, even if it's only a case of
working out which sensor chip it is and which sensors are where... the
biggest problem would be the huge array of different sensor chips.

Ben

 

[rstlne]

What a shame, but I can understand why... he's probably put under a lot of
pressure to support each and every new board, even if it's only a case of
working out which sensor chip it is and which sensors are where... the
biggest problem would be the huge array of different sensor chips.

Ben
--

Yea..
I think one of the BIGGEST problems is that the mobo mfgr's wont give him
the details he needs to really hook right into it to pull the info. I know
VIA eventually decided they would support him (or so they said on the via
site) because most users of their itx boards wanted something that wasnt
crap..

But yes, def a shame.. Every year tools like this keep going away and never
get replaced, or when they do get replaced it's by something that Microsoft
puts out and requires 20x the resources *sigh*

 

[Jules Augley]

| hi there
|
| wow i get an alarm on Motherboard Monitor for temp sensor 3 @
| 257 deg F ? i'm running an amd xp3200 + on an a7n8x-e deluxe?
| is this bad?
|

I think its a known problem for the board, same thing happened to me but,
for the life of me I cant remember what i did to fix it

Jules

 

[William]

Would it be ideal to have the manufacturers create their monitoring
software to include with their motherboards and video cards?

 

[Ben Pope]

Would it be ideal to have the manufacturers create their monitoring
software to include with their motherboards and video cards?

Lots of them do.

The problem is that they're non-standard and often of poor quality.

Ben