Weird cooling issue

[Jimmah]

Weirdest issue I've ever had.

I have a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 board, 6000+ x2 AM2, Sapphire 4670, Airlink101 wireless N pci. Every temp I can find shows ok, minus one temp on Speedfan whih shows 83-95 degrees C all the time. I've tried adding extra fans, opening up the side and putting a box fan to it, thought maybe it was drivers so re-downloaded and re-installed everything to no avail. Even the box fan didn't drop the temp more than 2 degrees.

I play WoW and SupCom, everything works fine in SupCom but WoW goes all weird with random black textures, crashes, errors and incorrect textures all over. The unknown 83-95* temp sometimes shoots to 100c and this is usually when WoW freaks out and crashes.

I can't figure out where this sensor might be or what it senses. Even right now with just this window open it's showing 86c.

Anyone have ideas what it could be for? CPU/NB temps are 36-42, GPU ranges 38-48, HDD 37-39. What else could it be sensing?

Thanks for the help

 

[dguy6789]

From what you've said, it seems certain to be a defective sensor or something wrong with speedfan. Speedfan has incorrect sensors sometimes. I've had it report negative temperatures on some sensors on some computers before. If you ran a box fan on the side of your computer and still had high temps on that sensor, then it's just reading wrong or not reading anything at all. I'd just not worry about it. Just disable that sensor from showing up in speedfan.

 

[aigomorla]

my guess is that could possibly be your mosfets thats reporting those high temps.