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Help Temperature Trouble!!!!!!!!

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Polyphemus

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I need advice on what to do.

Two days ago I built a system for my mother. Here's what I put together for her.

CPU - Intel Celeron 2400 Mgz
MoBo - Asus P4P8X
Ram - 1024 Meg Dual Chan. 400 Mgz DDr

The OS is windows XP. Now I have installed two progs. to moniter the system, the first is Asus Probe and the second is Motherboard Monitor.

I run both monitoring programs and both tell me that the CPU temp. is 86*C and tell's me to shut down right away. I do a restart and enter the bios to verifie the bios power moniter and this one tells me that the CPU temp. is 41*C.

Have anyone ever experience this and if so, what should i do, which monitor is the most reliable?

Logicaly, if the CPU would be at 86*C, I would feel some heat when I put my hand near the CPU but there is no heat, the heatsink is pretty much the same temperature as the metal case.

Another thing I noticed is that in the voltage monitor, the +12v is at +15v, I first thaught the was something wrong with my PSU so I put in a different one with the same 350W power and again the voltage monitor says that the +12V is at +15V, is this normal and could this be the reason why the temp. goes high, and if so, what can I do to lower the voltage?
 
Your system wouldn't be running if either of those readings were correct, therefore it is safe to assume that the monitor program is wrong, as is many times the case with these types of programs. However, your HSF shouldn't be cool to the touch... Try reseating the CPU, reapplying thermal paste, and reseating the HSF. As for the PSU, check the voltages by hand with a multimeter or VOM if you are concerned.
 
Turns out that the two monitoring programs where having some kind of conflict with eachother, the temp. was just a false alarm.

The only thing left for me to figure out is the voltage, I dont have anything to test the voltage manually, all I can do is check the monitering progs. for now, it still says that the +12V is at +15V, and I tryed 2 different PSU and ended up with the same +15V reading.

Is there anything I can do? Could this cause harm to the PC?

Would there be another monitor that would be more reliable than the Bios monitor and the asus probe monitor?
 
Originally posted by Polyphemus
Turns out that the two monitoring programs where having some kind of conflict with eachother, the temp. was just a false alarm.

The only thing left for me to figure out is the voltage, I dont have anything to test the voltage manually, all I can do is check the monitering progs. for now, it still says that the +12V is at +15V, and I tryed 2 different PSU and ended up with the same +15V reading.

Is there anything I can do? Could this cause harm to the PC?

Would there be another monitor that would be more reliable than the Bios monitor and the asus probe monitor?
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15V is way too much and yes - it could be harmful... are you sure the reading is correct?
 
maybe somehow the mobo is just screwy with stuff... if you can't find any other problems ( I know you tried 2 PSUs) and they all read at that voltage I would RMA it.
 
Originally posted by Polyphemus
What does "RMA" mean, i'm pretty much new to this so i dont know much.
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Return Merchandise Authorization. It's so that they have a number for their inventory system, so that they can track it, make sure you get what you want etc..
 
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