100°C DH55TC Motherboard Temperature

[General_Terror]

I am getting an abnormal 100°C motherboard temperature on an Intel DH55TC motherboard.

Any comments anyone ?

 

[tecmo34]

Can you download HWMonitor and post an image screen shot from there? It is easier in my opinion to determine what is the issue or is it picking up a "false sensor", which is actually not reading anything.

 

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[tecmo34]

I would look at your north bridge or south bride heat sinks to make sure they are fully seated or look to remove and apply new thermal compound & re-apply the heat sink.

 

[General_Terror]

I have been running it for about 4 months now, experienced some slowness many times, but thought that it was due to windows 2003 server and the old HDD.
And also, it fails to restart/shutdown, i.e. gets stuck at an empty desktop screen, and I have to manually power it off, could it be a sign of Mobo damage ?

 

[General_Terror]

A simple BIOS update resolves the problem.