On Monday 09 April 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > It's not worth updating the bios, I think. I'll be upgrading the whole > > box in a few weeks. Funny, or not so funny, in that I left Asus boards > > after several years of using them, because I couldn't get lm-sensors to > > work with the last Asus board I bought. I thought Abit would be > > reliable. > > Sounds like it is your BIOS as you say. But one note about lm_sensors, > it gets raw uncalibrated measurements from whatever temperature sensors > you have and proceeds to apply one of a variety of ugly fudge factors to > try to make some of them which are decidedly nonlinear over temperature > approximate linearity. But there isn't much to calibrate your fudge > factor to any kind of reality. > On an Asus board I used to have, I remember I had to swap the sensor readings around. > It seems a reasonable bet that if your BIOS exposes any opinion about > the temperature of its sensors, that is probably more reliable in > general than lm_sensors. > Unfortunately, you have to reboot to get the info, though. Actually, as far as I can tell, on my boxes where it works, the readings are close to the bios reports. Good enough for an indication, I think. Anne
