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temp sensors show this silliness


but, they report fine in bios, AFAIK (in the 30 range for system, 50 range for cpu)

mageia3, 64
gigabyte board
amd apu quad 5500
thoughts?

more info?

canadaist wrote:temp sensors show this silliness

more info?

I'm not an expert but to me it seems that you'll need to adjust lm-sensors configuration.

did you run sensor-detect?

regards peter

Yes, I ran sensors-detect, most anyway. There are now warnings about that software. It both reads and writes, and there have been reports about problems after writing to eproms for example, so I only did about half of them. I am willing to wait until this is sorted.

I baked my last cpu, so I am a little wary of heat now, but not so much I am willing to risk the rest of the system.

I had hoped it was a easy solution, seems not, will be watching for configs that work with the gigabyte f2a85xm board, and that dont write unexpectedly to eproms etc.

One report, on the lmsensors site, also mentions both the wrong temps, the "negative 8 degree" reading and the 'fluctuating up from zero" -- that I have.

Their suggestions dont seem to match my configs (no thermistor - no diode) so I will compute slowly till its resolved

What sensors chip(s) do you have? This will be listed in /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors

HWMON_MODULES="it87" it says

i would just recommend that you make sure that you have an adequate heat sink/fan for your CPU.

and dont overclock it.

and make sure that its properly adhered to the cpu, this is one of the main problems with overheating.

if the heat cant get away from the core of the cpu it will fry.

its very unlikely to fry a CPU if you follow these rules, unless you have a fan fail or a blocked airflow.

i use on my 1100T processor the following heatsink.

Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU Cooler

I have similar styled heatsinks on both my Xeon 5570's in my servers, and they run 24/365,
in a shed that gets quite hot, and they have been running for 4 years without problems.

and where i work we disable power management, on our xeons and run them max speed,
again 24/365 and they dont fry.

the amd apu quad 5500 is only a 65 watt CPU, whereas the 1100T is a 140 watt.

just my opinion.

regards peter

Thanks for your thoughts. I will continue to await configs for this motherboard while keeping the heat down