Abnormal Fan Readings on HWMonitor?

Yanto10

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This is likely an error with the program but HWMonitor had shown that four of my fans: SYSFANIN, CPUFANIN, AUXFANIN0, and AUXFANIN1 were all running at 36,494 RPM. After restarting my computer, that fans appear to be more stable. I was just wondering if any one is experiencing this to confirm my suspicions.
 
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I've had crazy results like that too with monitoring software. Like you, I assumed the software was at fault. Or the BIOS. Check BIOS at boot next time and see what it reports for those fans.

Yanto10

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Thank you, I believe that it is just a bug with HWMonitor. It seems to be happening every time I wake up my computer from sleep and the program is running.
 

Karadjgne

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HWMonitor is an ancient program, written by a long-gone crazy old fool, who wrote it to cover the 'then' motherboards that contained all sorts of stuff like Northbridge and Southbridge chipsets, half of which are no longer used as they are integrated into the cpu, and the other half are in different spots as motherboards have evolved and made layout changes. Its totally unreliable and half the time unreadable.

If you want more reliable software, use CoreTemp, RealTemp, HWinfo, or Speccy, all of which are proven and free.