Subject: Mainboard monitoring
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Sigmund Skjelnes <skjelnes@robin.no>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/17/2006 09:25:46
Hi, all!

Summer is finally here, and my pc might run into thermal problems again. 
I'd found an mainboard monitor, mbmon in /etc/pkgsrc/sysutils. It found 
the motherboard, but the readings differ a bit from the bios 
temperature. I'd read around 50 centigrades om mbmon, but bios reading 
near 67 centigrades, the maximum temperature for my processor. I'd 
activated the temperature alarm, and the siren sounded from reboot to 
the system got into mulit-user mode. I'd could only read the bios cpu 
temperature while in the bios setup, I'd had to reboot to do that. Also, 
the cpu temperature reading flickers a bit, indicating there is 
something that makes noise in the system, and possible reading errors. 
Do the cpu temperature actually rise during an re-boot? Have anybordy 
any idea how accurate the mbmon is?

Cincerely,
Sigmund