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50bmg   12-19-2007 at 04:40:14 PM

I just installed my pentiumd D 920. Started up no probs. I updated my bios and drivers a few days ago. Speedfan is showing 0 degrees celcius. I will have to investigate that. The bios is reading 43c at restart after a game of COD4. I installed Everest, but it too is not showing my cpu temp.

Any ideas. The mobo seems to be working properly. After playing COD4 for a while the fan's rpms went up. My bios has the temp. Speed fan and everest are both posting fan rpm for it, just not the temp.

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rgeist554   12-19-2007 at 05:19:59 PM
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I just installed my pentiumd D 920...

Dear god, why? It's the same as a p4 at 3.0Ghz in single threaded apps. :(

Anyways, your problem sounds like a software or driver issue since your BIOS seems to be reading it just fine. That or just some bad temp sensors. Does either program read your GPU temp?

Post a screenshot of speedfan if you can.

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50bmg   12-19-2007 at 05:40:29 PM
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rgeist554 wrote :

Dear god, why? ..........

Because my mobo won't support any newer architecture. It is a temp fix, until i buy a new mobo(x38) in the spring. My p4 was topping out at 100%. The PD is barely hitting 70% when loaded. It is running much better. I picked up 15-20FPS more in COD4 and BF2142. Besides, it was real cheap. I can't lose.

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Does either program read your GPU temp?

Yes. Both post temps for GPU, HD and mobo. Both have them called something different. I don't recall what they name them. Speedfan does call the CPU temp - CPU temp. Which shows 0c. Everest show nothing for the CPU temp.

both also post fan speeds for everything correctly.

rgeist554 wrote :

Post a screenshot of speedfan if you can.

OK. I am at work now. I will post it this afternoon.


Message edited by 50bmg on 12-19-2007 at 05:45:53 PM
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rgeist554   12-19-2007 at 05:49:13 PM
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Because my mobo won't support any newer architecture. It is a temp fix, until i buy a new mobo(x38) in the spring. My p4 was topping out at 100%. The PD is barely hitting 70% when loaded. It is running much better. I picked up 15-20FPS more in COD4 and BF2142. Besides, it was real cheap. I can't lose.

Ah, I guess that's acceptable. The x38 will hopefully get cheaper when the x48 comes out since they already delayed x48 in hopes of flushing out all the x38 boards.

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Yes. Both post temps for GPU, HD and mobo. It has them called something different. I don't recall what it names them. It does call the CPU temp - CPU temp. Which shows 0c.

Speedfan should also label core 1 and 2. Probably as Core 0 and Core 1, or CPU 0 / CPU 1. If that's not showing up, maybe it doesn't recognize it as a dual core.

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Grimmy   12-19-2007 at 06:16:52 PM
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Perhaps you should state what your MB is.

 

Also, SpeedFan only has so much support on different MB's.

 

Supported hardware monitor chips and temperature sensors

 

Try to figure out what you have, and see if they have it on their list. Other wise, it may not have support to read the temp sensors.

 

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Also you can see what speedfan does detect from that log screen. For example, this is what it detects on my system:

 

Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:YES SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked nVidia nForce410 SMBUS at $5000
Linked nVidia nForce410 SMBUS at $6000
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
SuperIO Chip=FINTEK F71882F
Linked ISA BUS at $0A00
Scanning nForce2 SMBus at $5000...
Scanning nForce2 SMBus at $6000...
Scanning ISA BUS at $0A00...
F71882F found on ISA at $A00
SMART Enabled for drive 0
Found ST3320620AS (320.1GB)
End of detection
Loaded 5 events


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rgeist554   12-19-2007 at 06:28:23 PM
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Perhaps you should state what your MB is.


Also, SpeedFan only has so much support on different MB's.

Yeah, that's why I'm thinking this is a software / driver conflict since his BIOS reads it just fine, but the other programs draw a blank.

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50bmg   12-19-2007 at 06:40:03 PM
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my mobo sux. my pc is a HP. the mobo is an Asus P5LP-LE. Looking at the link above, it is not listed. That is probably the issue. I will never buy another HP. I got lazy. I always built my machines until that one.

EDIT: any other ideas for monitoring the temp. It is a Pentium D. I need to keep my eye on the temps. Althought it is a 9xx series. I understand they run much cooler. It seems fine after a day of hard gaming.

I don't plan on OCing it.


Message edited by 50bmg on 12-19-2007 at 06:46:05 PM
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Grimmy   12-19-2007 at 06:57:09 PM
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Only other thing I guess you could try, is Asus Probe. Can't say if it will or will not work:

 

ASUS PC Probe by ASUS

 

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The only thing is.. I think your only going to see was is called the Tcase temp, which is the sensor in between the cores.. Not sure if the PD are the same. Or in other words, you won't see the core temps, but rather a single temp like the bios reports.


Message edited by Grimmy on 12-19-2007 at 06:59:44 PM
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geofelt   12-19-2007 at 07:13:13 PM
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You could try intel TAT(thermal analysis tool). It's nice to know your temps, but I guess you probably should'nt worry about it; the cpu will throttle itself down if it gets too hot.

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50bmg   12-19-2007 at 11:50:38 PM
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here is a screenshot of speedfan, cpuz and everest. Still no cpu temp. TAT would not work. Any other ideas how i can read my cpu temp?

http://www.freewebs.com/dermking/temp.JPG


Message edited by 50bmg on 12-20-2007 at 03:47:53 AM
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Grimmy   12-20-2007 at 04:55:13 PM
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Did you try Asus Probe?

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50bmg   12-20-2007 at 05:01:04 PM
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i tried to install it. It would not install. It said it could not find .... I forget the error. I tried twice.

It seems to be running cool. I have had no crashes, period. It never gets over 75%. I can see the temp in the bios at start up, 43c-47c. I wish i could see the temp under load. To bad i cant borrow someones infrared temp sensor gun, lol.

EDIT: anyone ever use http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/active.htm


Message edited by 50bmg on 12-20-2007 at 05:02:39 PM
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