On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Sigmund Skjelnes wrote:
> 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?

How many sensors are there? Is the BIOS reading one, and mbmon a different
one?

Patrick