Jean Delvare wrote: > Depends on the thermal sensor type. For thermal diodes (or > diode-connected transistors) the chip can typically detect if the > thermal sensor is missing, and it will report it either explicitly in > a status register, or through an arbitrary value (typically -128 or > +127). > > For thermistors, what the chip measures is actually a voltage, which > is then converted to a temperature value. If the board manufacturer > doesn't want to implement a sensor, they will typically wire the input > to the ground, which is equivalent to an infinitely high or infinitely > low temperature (depending on how the voltage divisor bridge is > built), and the chip doesn't have to treat this as a special case. > Things get bad when the manufacturer leave the thermal input floating, > you will get random temperatures. This is quite possibly what Per is > experiencing. Hi Jean if only I was getting random readings, but the readout I'm seeing doesn't look random at all - it's typically 80-81, but will increase to 86 when I'm stressing the system (the CPU-temp will rise to 62/63 at the same time). I'm currently waiting for the board to be replaced, so I can't tell you exactly what lm-sensors says about the type of sensor, but I think it said it was "transistor". Regardless, I guess I should be ignoring it when Gigabyte says it's not there ... /Per Jessen, Z?rich
