MotherBoard Monitor - Sensor 3 on Dragon Plus

[jhites]

Does anyone know what the Sensor 3 is reading on MotherBoard Monitor with the K7V Dragon Plus. I know that Sensor 1 and 2 are the Mobo and Processor, but can't seem to figure out the 3rd sensor.

I have seen this sensor read from 12C up to 52C but don't know what it could be unless it is the PS.

 

[rondeemc]

^????

 

[jhites]

FYI

Running Prime95 for the past 20 hours with settings at 144Mhz Bus and Crucial PC2100 CL2.5 @ CL2 - 2-6-2 has mobo temp from 22C to 27C and XP1600+ from 32C to 39C with Alpha PAL8045/Sunon 50cfm fan. And yes the 8045 does fit the Dragon Plus!

So I am ok with these temps. Just don't know what that 3rd sensor number could be????

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Your temps are fine... does the BIOs report 2 or 3 temps?


Mike

 

[jhites]

Right - Mikewarrior2 - I am fine with the temps also.

The BIOS only shows the two temps which are the same as MBM5.

I just have never seen this third temp number and am just curious as to what it might be. May just be some error reading. ?????

 

[Bglad]

I couldn't figure it out either. After some time thinking about it and messing with it, I began to think it was an erronous reading. The only thing I could think of was a case temp but the readings didn't make sense. I just turned off that reading and left it with just chipset and cpu temps.

[edit]
Oh, and the bios only reads 2 temps so that strengthens my argument that this is an erronous reading. I built the machine with the Dragon for my brother last week and shipped it to him so I can't play with it anymore though.

 

[jhites]

Just installed Sandra Pro update and it shows three temps, so maybe this is it.

Board Temperature
CPU Temperature
Power / Aux Temperature

The CPU and Board Temps are backwards however in Sandra. I double that my CPU temp is 24C and my Board temp is 34C with the Power/Aux temp @ 31C.

Running Prime95 for about 30min and checking both MBM5 and Sandra shows the Board @25C, CPU @37C and Power @40C.

The BIOS confirms the Board and CPU temps, so there you have it. The sensor 3 for the Soyo Dragon Plus is the P/S temp reading at least for the Antec SX840 with the PP412X 400w P/S. Must be getting the temp reading from the Power Connector on the MotherBoard since the only other connection from the P/S is the Fan Sensor wire.

Just FYI in case anyone is interested!!

 

[Bglad]

Not a bad guess, but speculative.

I've never heard of a thermistor in the PSU. Do most have that and this feature is not utilized by most other boards?

Can anyone confirm? I would think Soyo would list this in the bios if thats what they were doing.