Hi Jean. > Aha, it wasn't meant to be a smiley. I just missed the opening > parenthesis. Glad it helped anyway. However this means that your fan is > really, really slow. Maybe this explains why your system is so hot? > > >> As hot has hell! Hardly believable. Maybe you need to change the sensor > >> type? > > > >Changing the sensor type starts to give negative temperatures. > > Hm OK, so they had to be correct in the first place. > Could it be that the fan is not being driven fast enough by bios/io chip settings? Or maybe the CPU fan is just a little flaky. Any ideas? It is a Gigabyte GA-7VKML motherboard. VIA KM266 & VT8233A + IT8705F. > > The it87 & lm90 M/B temp are starting to agree. > > It's both encouraging (means we are probably measuring the temperature > correctly) and frightening (would your system need additional fans?) > > > However the it87 CPU temp looks almost 2X the lm90 one. > > This is odd. Do you have any conversion formula set in the configuration > file? > I checked and this was a part of the problem. It looks like it still may need some tweaking. Cheers, bradley