AS99127F CPU temp (Examined/Solved - lm_sensors 2.4.5 Linux 2.4.13)

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Hi there

I have an ASUS A7V133A motherboard.

I have been playing with the CPU temp formula, as I found it was too low

when I started. My CPU idles at about 54 degrees according to the bios,

and gets to about 61 degrees after high load and then rebooting to the bios.

I compared these bios readings to the value in temp2 in /proc, and found

that just multipling the proc value by two I end up with very close to

the correct value!

I'm wondering if anyone else has similar results. The formula in sensors.conf

gave me values that were about 10 degrees or so too low, and doesn't go

up on the right slope for me either.

I have tried this formula from cold, going to bios to linux to bios as

it boots up. This isn't all that accurate of course, as the temp can jump

5 degrees or so between bios and linux, but the linux reading was always

between the bios readings before and after booting, so my formula seems

to work over a reasonable range.

Also, once an audible alarm has been set off, how do you turn it off?

If say a voltage reading goes too high, and I change the tolerance in

sensors.conf, then run sensors -s, the alarm still sounds, even though

it is now in range. The same thing happens when I was fiddling with the

temp2 formula, and I would set temp too high, the alarm would sound even after

fixing the formula and running sensors -s to make it happy, I'd still have to

reboot.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Tim

ps, sorry if this formats funny, I'm sending it from lynx, so I hope it looks OK

:) --- thanks for the info about the temperature.

For the alarm sounding, don't really know.

You can look at the 'alarms' entry in /proc to see all the

alarm bits, and 'beeps' for the beep bits, but it

isn't clear what signal the speaker is hooked up to

on your board, and of course we don't have the 99127 datasheet.

mds 11/15/01