Help! Can't read cpu temp!?!

[Syborg1211]

I took out my computer parts and my motherboard and put some thermal grease on my chipset. I also put some Arctic Silver on my cpu on my slotket. I put everything back together and when I got it up and running I could read the temps in the bios, but when i got into windows and used Motherboard Monitor and Hardware Doctor, it would say unavailable and it couldn't read temps. So i put in my old p3 katmai and it would read temps in both bios and windows. I am thinking, hoping, that it is my slotket. Anyone have any comments or think it might be something else?

 

[Syborg1211]

anyone even want to verify my thoughts?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Try uninstalling/reinstalling mbm?


Mike

 

[Syborg1211]

I never originally used mbm, only hardware doctor. Someone told me to install mbm so i tried it and it didn't work.

 

[thorin]

Test another slocket, or test our CPU in a friends sys.

Thorin

 

[Syborg1211]

I am the only one with a coppermine right now, everyone else has celerons with nonsupportable boards. I am going to order a new one soon.

 

[Syborg1211]

ok, so i got the new slotket and i still cant read temps!!!!

 

[Syborg1211]

i am assuming i messed up my cpu somehow or something! Man, this is pissing me off since i dont think i can ruin the thermal diode that is in the bottom of the cpu by putting on a fan which goes on the top of the cpu! I might have messed something up on the motherboard but i get temp reading with my other cpu.

 

[Nevin]

Not all makes and models of slotkets pass the output from the CPU diode to the motherboard.

Pretty much impossible to damage the CPU's internal thermal diode. It is part of the silicone just like the millions of other micro components.

Nevin

 

[Syborg1211]

but i could read temps before i took apart my computer and put it back together

 

[Syborg1211]

maybe my os system is messed up somehow. But is reformatting really worth a chance of reading my temps again?

 

[Pretender]

Why the hell you putting thermal grease on your motherboard chipset? Thermal Grease is to be used in order to bridge air gaps between a heatsink and a heat source (a.k.a. processor or some other microchip). Using thermal grease on a chip by itself is only insulating it (e.g. helping to keep the chip hot).

 

[Syborg1211]

my motherboard is an abit motherboard and it has a small green heatsink on it. And, a heatsink without a conductor sucks!

 

[tonyou]

Syborg1211, if your bios is reporting thermal diode reading correctly then it should also work in Windows. Unlike Hardware Doctor, you need to setup Motherboard Monitor correctly before temperature can be reported.

Go to Motherboard Monitor website, look under "Board Info" for the maker of your motherboard. A page containing your motherboard setting should help you setup Motherboard Monitor.

Tony

 

[Syborg1211]

when I installed MBM4, I set it to the way that the place told me to but I received 127C for my cpu! and 38 for case. Then at the bottom of the screen of where I read the settings from, it said that some sensor wouldn't work. So I changed it to the non P2 setting and received cpu temp, but now I have 0C for my case temp. Weird!