Computer crashed out - speedfan reading of 120 degrees...

Skullfish1 · 23 Aug 2006 at 00:26

OK, I'm running a P5W DH (BIOS 0701) with an E6600 oc'ed to 3.1ghz with a Zalman Aeroflower cooler on it. Was playing a LAN game of DoW with a friend when the computer restarted, I checked speedfan after restart and it said temp 1 was 28 degrees, (about right for slightly above idle and agrees with ASUS probe for the CPU temp normally, ASUS probe wouldn't load at this point) temp 2 was 43 degrees (Mobo as far as I can tell, hot but it seems fairly standard) and temp 3 was 120 degrees!

What is temp 3? I had a grope round in the case afterwards and nothing felt that hot... NB and SB simply felt warm to the touch. all fans seem to be spinning fine.

Any help? Asus Probe doesn't report a 3rd temp, so I've nothing to compare it to.

Justintime · 23 Aug 2006 at 01:02

Its likely just an unused sensor, did it ever fall? If it does start falling it might be your gpu :eek:

fornowagain · 23 Aug 2006 at 01:57

Skullfish1 said:
Any help? Asus Probe doesn't report a 3rd temp, so I've nothing to compare it to.

Its nothing, ignore it. Just reconfigure it to look something like this.

Skullfish1 · 23 Aug 2006 at 11:17

And how would I do that? I'm a fair newbie and there doesn't seem to be a help file on speedfan.

'Fraid the temp did fall, its normally stable at 70... :eek:

Don't think its the GPU, havn't overclocked it and its got a Vf-900CU on it.

I went into config and all three working temps are on the same winbond chip, then the last one that doesn't reigster is something like **0 (EL-EIGHTY, freaky censor) iirc. (I'm on spare comp now.)

The worst bit is that I ran 32M Superpi on it once I got it up and running, no crashes, no restarts, did it fast to.

I am getting the 256 cpu temp bug, so could updating the BIOS help? I say nothing felt that hot, but I realise this morning that all that could mean is one of the coolers is not moving heat at all, so the sinks don't get hot.

fornowagain · 23 Aug 2006 at 12:05

I have the same temp3 it ranges from 130C to -48C, its not a component, can't be, its a ghost.

The 256 bug happens if you open cpu-z with probeII? Its a software bug.

Here is some setting screens for speedfan.

Skullfish1 · 23 Aug 2006 at 13:04

OK, just to reassure me. The reboot combined with the high temp was probably just a coincidence then?

Time to seach for a new cause. :rolleyes:

Ah well, at least nothings going to melt.

cheers all yet again..

@ Fornowagain - Are you using the HZ-6400? How did you get the timings down to 4-4-4-12?

fornowagain · 23 Aug 2006 at 13:18

Skullfish1 said:
@ Fornowagain - Are you using the HZ-6400? How did you get the timings down to 4-4-4-12?

Down? That's stock at 400Mhz.

Justintime · 23 Aug 2006 at 13:27

If you notice the value not moving at all its just a unconnected sensor or something similar. Have you made sure its prime and 3D stable along with memtest86+ ?

Skullfish1 · 23 Aug 2006 at 17:09

fornowagain said:
Down? That's stock at 400Mhz.

sorry, brainfart.

Vaule wasn't stable, I saw it at 69, 70 and 120 degrees. The 120 value was just after the comp rebooted itself.

I've returned the CPU to stock and the problem hasn't come back again, though the vaule is still high.