New mobo temps

Bond007ukBond007uk
edited April 2004 in Hardware
Hello

Following on from my other post regarding my 9800XT i gave up and bought a MSI PT800 Board and 1gb of pc 2700 ddr

Ok so the card is working without the serious slowdows of before but it still aint running full wack!

The problem at the moment is that the only thing changed is the mobo, the cpu and heatsink are the same, execpt now my machine is at 50c when idle and as far as i can see goes upto 65c on a load! Before on my Asus board (p4t533c) the temp was 35c idle and 54c on a load! Why are temps 15c more? How do i bring the temp down?? I have a P4 2.4Ghz Northwood

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    what case are you using? can't you post a link to the previous thread?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    Try reseting the Heatsink and fan. Seems like it might not be on correctly. That would make the temps real high.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    if its the same case etc then either A) your sensor is broken or B) you need to reseat your HSF
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    MSI has had a BIOS temp misread problem. Typically, reads 4-10 C high for some boards. In my case I had to do a BIOS flash to fix. My board, an MSI KT4VL, had the system temp about 4 C high, the CPU 5-8 C high depending on load. Fixed that in last week, as MSI finally fixed several things that let me discover and use the BIOS patch. They use Winbond environmental chips on affected baords, and they did not allow for proper signal<-> temp conversion.

    Short form, get a tech to flash BIOS to LATEST for that board adn that board rev., or go to http://www.msi.com.tw/ and get latest MSI Liveupdate and run that and it will autocheck for you (yes, they had problems with their liveupdater TOO-- after they changed some of thier FTP links around), issued probably in month of March or April of this year.

    IF you use MSI's NEW liveupdater, you need a good blank floppy handy to flash (It will make a bootable flashing floppy, reboot, flash, and then proceed to reboot again and load Windows), and make darn sure computer is power protected when flashing. ALSO, make usre to back up when it offers to, the updater will then be able to restore old BIOS from that same floppy, so SAVE it for a week or two and make sure the BIOS does not now have other quirks.

    Asus did not have THAT TEMP issue on your old board, AFAIK.

    John D.
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