SN85G4V2 temps way too high?

[Duncan3]

Immediately after boot... From the PC Heath BIOS screen

PWM 46c
CPU 73c and rising
System 40c

Are these numbers completely bogus or what's the deal? It shouldnt even be functional...

 

[CRXican]

that CPU temp is insane. Make sure you applied the thermal paste correctly and have the heatsink seated properly. Use AS5 for best results.

 

[agentzero9]

user error

 

[Duncan3]

from cold to 70C in less then 10 seconds? Not likely. And I've built plenty of PCs

It runs fine so far (Si3112R driverscausing DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, but that's old news) so I'm leaning towards something mis-reporting in the bios.

 

[juniormlc]

Make sure you have the latest BIOS. I see lots of people in the SFF Tech forums with this problem. Most of them haven't updated there BIOS. Here's the thread:
http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=60961

 

[MrE]

This is correct. Do you happen to have a NewCastle core? While the misread CPU temps affected both Clawhammer and NewCastle, it was really bad with the NewCastle core. I'm betting you have the 026 BIOS and need to update to the 034 BIOS. This will report the CPU temps correctly.

Regards,

-E

 

[Duncan3]

Yeap, once i got in far enough to flash the BIOS, we're at:

PWM 57 (case still off)
CPU 48
System 44

and the fans dropped out of hyperdrive

Oh, and youer WILL need the newest SATA driver, here is the link http://www.siliconimage.com/products/sataraid.asp
Thanks.