90 C Temp on friends CPU/MSI Pro 2a Board-R/monitor issues w/board?

[AnMig]

Fooling around with my friends cpu (custom built by his friend)so I peek in the bios and was shocked to see the Temp 80 C idle and 90 C after some use. His cpu does not appear to crash (hardly uses it).

Before I alarm him and start to take appart his comp. Are there temp monitoring issues with this board? Is this even possible 90 C ?

He does not appear to be overclocked (default multiplier) although fsb set at 133 (maybe he does not have Pro 2-a). Also his voltage is at 1.85 isnt it supposed to be 1.75?

Dont want to step in since he was not confident enough in me to build his system anyway. So want to extra sure its not a temp monitoring issue.

His system as far as I know

1.09 tbird/ MSI board with raid(not used)
ATI all in wonder/Soundblaster live value/
256 ram unknown brand
Windows ME (has not crashed yet so havent pushed him to W2K)

 

[Buz2b]

I'll give this a shot. I haven't seen one motherboard yet that did not have at least some accuracy issues in the hardware monitering system. Most are just good to give you an idea of the temps and what they are doing. However, it seems like those that I've read about tend to be a bit on the low side. I do not have specific information on this board however.
As to the 90c you are seeing: According to what I read on this page, your friends CPU is walking a fine line right at the limit of what AMD considers the "maximum operating temperature." It's a good thing he doesn't use it much because it will probably not last too long running that hot. No doubt this will drastically shorten the life of the CPU and possibly his MB. It may be simply that the HSF is not seated properly, but "somebody" needs to alert him of this problem. Or maybe you could talk to the other friend who built the system first, just to inquire if he was aware of these temps. Let him know that you weren't sure if he was aware and that you didn't say anything to the owner of the system so as not to alarm him. He might appreciate it better that way.