speedfan error?

[[teh]manwich]

yo. the other day i was trying to monitor my system and cpu temps with any software monitoring program i could find. i heard about speedfan so i downloaded that, but when i used it to check my cpu temps, it said it was idling at 52C. this cant be correct cuz i went into the bios and it said it was idling at 34C. my mobo is the am2 foxconn 590sli board and my cpu is a amd 4200x2 with a zalman 9500 cooling fan with some AS5. is there anyway to fix this? cuz i would really like to see what my temps are under full load cuz using the bios gets annoying. ive heard about ntune but not sure if my mobo supports that

 

[Colin Dean]

I'm having a similar problem.

I've been using OCCT to make graphs of power supply voltages of various power supplies that come across my desk. I use Speedfan as a backend to it. I'm also using nTune/nvMonitor.

In the past--with other builds, other boards--OCCT has worked entirely fine--I'm pretty sure my problem lies with Speedfan or whatever method it uses to detect temperature and voltages.

Anyway, Speedfan detects my CPU temp at about 53 deg C idle. It reports Vcore at 1.28 V, +12V at 8.61 V, and AVcc at 3.3 V.

The temperature, while incorrect (a quick shutdown and boot into the BIOS shows in the 40s), is somewhat hot but acceptable. I know I need better cooling in this case, so that's a work in progress.

However, the +12V rail has got to be reporting erroneously, as well. I've tried three different PSUs (Zalman 500W, Ultra X3 600W, Antec TP Quattro 1kW) and they all show ~8.6 V in Speedfan. Additionally, where's the 5V rail? I've not a lot of experience with Speedfan's inner workings, so I could have it misconfigured.

MBM doesn't have a preset for my motherboard, and I don't have money in my budget for Everest.

Ideas?

System: Foxconn C51XEM2AA, Athlon X2 6000+, 2x2GB GEIL DDR2 800 MHz, Foxconn GeForce 8800 GTX, Samsung SATA HDD, Plextor SATA DVD burner, Realtek RTL8185 wireless, and the aforementioned PSUs possible. Other devices: one CCFL.