80c bios 39c in windows on a7n8xDL

KometeKomete Member
edited February 2004 in Hardware
Evening all, I just bough a new heatsink and it's a chiller. http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/case_cool/other/heatsinks/aerocool/dp102/index.shtml

Somehow in installing it I screwed up the temp diod for bios. In bios it reports the temps as 80c and rising however when I make it into windows the temps are 39c from asus prob. The problem is if I don't make it into windows fast enough it thinks it's over heating and shuts down.

The ultimate test was useing my finger and feeling all over the socket and it's not even luke warm!!!

Any one know where the bios gets it temp readings from and how I can fix this? My Mother board is an asus a7n8xDL v1.4

My mobile 2500xp and 1 gig of mushkin are coming in tomorrow and I was looking to get into some over clocking.

Please help :wave:

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  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    Try unseating that heatsink (excellent heatsink, btw), and putting it back on. Just for the hell of it. See what it does. If that doesn't work, take it off again, take the CPU out, put the CPU back in, and put the heatsink back on. If that still doesn't work, clear the CMOS.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2004
    Actually I've done all 3 of the things you have mentioned with no luck. BTW the 39c is with arctic silver 2. I have some AS5 coming in on friday if ups decides to deliver. So hopfully it'll drop some more.

    I have read before about the temp diod getting bent to close to the cpu and causing this problem. I just need to find it lol.

    I will try clearing the cmos one more time and hope for the best.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    there is no diode in the A7N8X, tho. *geeky1 goes to check his a7n8x again*

    The board could be reading the internal temperature of the CPU, though. But I've had several A7N8Xs that thought my CPUs were at 50-odd*F in a 75*F room- and the CPUs had air cooling. :wtf:
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2004
    Well I cleared cmos again and no luck. Tommorow after I install the new cpu if it's still doing it I'm going to flash down 1004uber bios from the 1007 that I'm on now and see if that helps.

    One thing though the bios readings are very sparatic. it jumps up and down from 80 to 75 in a blink of an eye. Also I noticed the vcore jumps around quite a bit but I think thats normal.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    if all else fails, RMA it. What rev. board is it? I've been through 5 1.04s because the stupid sh!ts insist on sending me 1.04s. Sooner or later, they'll send me rev 2.0s that don't crap out @ 200MHz+ FSB. :mad:
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2004
    I'm none to happy about the 200fsb wall on these. The highest I've read about anyone is 215fsb. Good thing is I have a bud who will be building his dad a new pc off of a v2.0 and he agrred to trade me plus 20bucks for the 2.0. His pops isn't going to over clock.

    Well I flashed down to 1004 non uber becouse the uber would not flash. It helped out big time. Bios is still wrong saying im in the 50's but atleast now I can OC and boot into windows before the bios turns off the pc

    Might look into a better bios later in the week since I think the 1004 had problems with sata and friday I'm hooking up my new raptors. Did you have any recomendations on which bios to go with?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    No idea. I've always just used the latest one from ASUS. I haven't used my A7N8X in... 6 months or so. I bought a NF7-S v2.0 when I got a JIUHB/DLT3C 1800 last summer. I used it briefly 2 weeks ago or so, with a JIUHB/DUT3C 1700, but it died at 200MHz. I thought it was just >200MHz that they died. Oh well. ASUS's RMA department is like 30 minutes from my house. If they send me another Rev. 1.04, I'm gonna have to drive up there and kick the RMA manager in the balls for being a :rant:

    ;D
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2004
    LOL bro with the Asus manager.

    Well I poped in the 2500mobile and cranked up the fsb to 11x200 uped the vcore one notch, and no problems what so ever on the 1.4 bios. I used the generic goo that came with the heatsink and shes running at 42c solid no matter what I through at it it won't go higher.

    I'm still working on it to see if she is stable so far so good. another hour and i'm going to 2300.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2004
    Well I'm still having these crazy bios temps after trying 3 bioses. I've gotten the cpu up to 2.5ghz but temps rose to 45c. Bios temp readings are twice at whatever the cpu actually is at. Midway through any cpu intensive programs crash.

    right around 45c the mother board just shuts down since the bios thinks the cpu is running close to 90c. Am I wrong in thinking this? Becouse that is exactly what it looks like to me.

    As it stands now I can only run this at 2200 to 2365mghz stable before the pc shuts off. I should be happy with that I guess but 2.4 and 2.5 did seema good bit faster.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2004
    RMA the A7N8X. Buy an NF7-S 2.0. Sell the replacement A7N8X.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2004
    Well for 20 bucks in a few weeks I can get a a7n8xdL 2.0. Other than that I think I might have found the problem. The previos owner had some arctic silver on the socket for the cpu. He had wiped it off but it was still silver. I cleaned it up with the wifes nail polish remover, put on some AS5 that came in, added 3 more case fans, and now bios temps are reporting 40cish.

    I'm running at 2.4mghz solid it seems at 1.65. I'm itching for 2.5 now lol..

    I should really start stressing the hell out of it this weekend.
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