It could be that your sensor croaked - as dodo said, see what your bios is telling you. If the bios readout is a little more realistic you might try reinstalling the software.
Prof
PS: My dad has one of those icons from a weather site which displays the outside temperature in the system tray. I went up to visit him Monday and nearly wet my pants when I glanced down and saw a reading of 69 degrees.:D
Reign said Wouldn't it be best to use the monitor that comes with your motherboard? I've seen different results from others that i've donwloaded.
Even different monitors from the same company can give different results, as I just found out two days ago. I was re-doing my daughters computer and in my rush to get it done I downloaded the first MSI utility I saw, the temps were about five degrees higher than the BIOS reading. I went back to their site and found another MSI MB utility, tried it, and it was dead on. I guess they use different sensors on different boards.
i still have this problem...could it be because i used artic silver instead of the intel HSF paste?
I mean in the motherboard...it reads 40 degrees...where the hell does hardwaremonitor get the ratings from? Its certainly not the BIOS
(i installed version 2.7 that came with my kr7a-raid, and i reinstalled 3.4.11 atleast 5 times...at one point it was giving me good ratings..but then the temps dropped)
No, the thermal paste won't give you a bad reading.
Trust the temps you see in the Bios, then find a monitor which accurately reflects those. MBM5 lets you adjust the displayed temp, if it is consistently off by a set amount.
Another thing to keep in mind is the location of the sensor itself. My Asus A7V-133 comes with a disclaimer saying that the temps you see will seem higher than usual. They say that this is because the sensor is mounted closer to the CPU, and therefore is more accurate. I wouldn't worry about it, if your system runs fine. If that's the case I would just use the temp readout as a baseline for monitoring future problems. In other words, even if you know the temp is not accurate, just watch it to see if there is a sudden rise.
One other thing to remember is that a reading which is totally out of the realm of possibility probably means that the sensor is either not on the board at all, or you have your monitoring program set to the wrong sensor. I had one board which had a sensor reporting a temp of -137C. That would be wicked nice for OC'ing (were it true) but as it turned out, the sensor wasn't there at all.
He found this out right before going to work and he called me to tell me. When he attempts to turn the PC on, it won't. Can't really be the mobo because he just did an RMA and got a new Soyo Dragon. He's going to try and run the chip on his laptop. We'll see if its the mobo or chip.
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Prof
PS: My dad has one of those icons from a weather site which displays the outside temperature in the system tray. I went up to visit him Monday and nearly wet my pants when I glanced down and saw a reading of 69 degrees.:D
It has lots of other info too.
Even different monitors from the same company can give different results, as I just found out two days ago. I was re-doing my daughters computer and in my rush to get it done I downloaded the first MSI utility I saw, the temps were about five degrees higher than the BIOS reading. I went back to their site and found another MSI MB utility, tried it, and it was dead on. I guess they use different sensors on different boards.
Prof:)
I mean in the motherboard...it reads 40 degrees...where the hell does hardwaremonitor get the ratings from? Its certainly not the BIOS
(i installed version 2.7 that came with my kr7a-raid, and i reinstalled 3.4.11 atleast 5 times...at one point it was giving me good ratings..but then the temps dropped)
Trust the temps you see in the Bios, then find a monitor which accurately reflects those. MBM5 lets you adjust the displayed temp, if it is consistently off by a set amount.
Another thing to keep in mind is the location of the sensor itself. My Asus A7V-133 comes with a disclaimer saying that the temps you see will seem higher than usual. They say that this is because the sensor is mounted closer to the CPU, and therefore is more accurate. I wouldn't worry about it, if your system runs fine. If that's the case I would just use the temp readout as a baseline for monitoring future problems. In other words, even if you know the temp is not accurate, just watch it to see if there is a sudden rise.
One other thing to remember is that a reading which is totally out of the realm of possibility probably means that the sensor is either not on the board at all, or you have your monitoring program set to the wrong sensor. I had one board which had a sensor reporting a temp of -137C. That would be wicked nice for OC'ing (were it true) but as it turned out, the sensor wasn't there at all.
Prof
He found this out right before going to work and he called me to tell me. When he attempts to turn the PC on, it won't. Can't really be the mobo because he just did an RMA and got a new Soyo Dragon. He's going to try and run the chip on his laptop. We'll see if its the mobo or chip.