On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Per Jessen wrote: > I've been suspecting temp3 of being the Northbridge temperature, but > I've just been told by Gigabyte support that there is no sensor for > temp3 ... Many monitoring chips have multiple inputs and the motherboard manufacturer does not always connect all of them. I have an Asus M2N-SLI motherboard with an it8716 monitoring chip with three inputs, but only two of them are connected. Another possibility is that temp3 is connected to *something* in your system, but the values that lm-sensors uses to scale the raw reading are incorrect. Have you looked in the /etc/sensors.conf or /etc/sensors3.conf for any information on your particular monitoring chip or motherboard? > I've been particularly interested in this temp3 as it has been > hovering in the 80-86 degrees range, which I thought might be the > cause of severe system instability (whilst under load). On my system, temp3 on the it8716 always reports the maximum possible value, +127 C. I can guarantee (by putting my hand inside the case) that nothing in my computer is that hot, so I have always just ignored that reading. I suspect that either the chip is designed to report the maximum possible reading if there is no sensor connected, or that Asus wired the unused sensor input to ground, +3.3 V, or some other voltage that makes it read at the maximum possible. Matt Roberds
