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Mobo temp warning!

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muse101

Junior Member
Hi,

I've just installed a new Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 mobo and upon running Sandra 2005 (and also SpeedFan) i get a warning that the mainboard temp is to high (around 70c), I get this even when the system has just been switched on! I've looked in the BIOS under System Health and can't see any mention of System or Mobo temps. In addition to the CPU fan I have 3 80cm case fans (2 cooling the hard drives). There is a NB_FAN connector but the North Bridge has passive cooling. The system is stable with no crashes and I've not had any temp probs before, just would like to know why the warnings?.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
If the BIOS doesn't show a 'system' or 'case' or 'motherboard' temperature, it probably doesn't have a sensor for it (which means Sandra is probably reading garbage data). Try Everest or Motherboard Monitor and see if they say the same thing.
 
I ran SpeedFan and it reports 70C when the PC has just been switched on!! Wouldn't have thought that was possible. Faulty sensor sounds likely but I'll try those other to progs and see what they say.
 
Hey, sorry to dig up an old thread - my K8NF-9 also says readings from 68-70C and I've heard of others with the same - I'm wondering whether either the chip runs hot as it's passive, or quite possibly, there is no thermal diode and that bogus readings are produced. It showed these readings in an older version of EVEREST, but it a newer one didn't give any motherboard reading, so maybe it is just a bogus reading?
 
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