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How do 'ya find out what temp sensor is where?

Jonnycat

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So, I've got this mobo (Epox 9NDA3I), and it has a windbond thingy that reports temperatures.

I think that is really cool.

Unfortunately, there is no documentation that tells me which sensor is where.

Now, I can assume that the temperature which closely follows core temp is probably a diode/thermister under the CPU, but there are a couple of other sensors which I don't know about.

So a couple of questions:

Is one of the sensors sometimes monitoring the southbridge? (nForce 3 250 board)

Is there sometimes a sensor near the RAM?

How do you find out where the other sensors are at? Hair dryer? Any documentation sources?
 

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sometimes motherboard monitor will tell you specially on olde boards i kno mine reported my cpu temp 1&2 at cpu diode and cpu socket temp
 

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Well, MBM hasn't been updated for three years, well before my board came out, so that no worky for me. Even when I did have a board which used MBM, it didn't tell me the location of the non-CPU sensors, but thanks for the try though.
 
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well i would just download everest and see what temps match because everest tells you about all your temps and were they are
 

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Ah, cool, well that gives me one of 'em anyway (GPU ambient, but I don't know where it is exactly), but I still don't know where the one called, "motherboard" is located. Thanks!
 
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Ok sorry you meen you want to know were the temp sensor are located on your motherboard
 

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Download and run "Speedfan" if you havent already, it identifies and displays all the sensors, you should then be able to corrolate and match. Speedfan describes itself as:


SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can change fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise. Several sensors, like Winbond's and the AS99127F support fan speed changing, as well as others from Maxim, Myson, Analog Devices, National Semiconductor and ITE, but the hardware manufacturer must have connected the relevant pins to some additional, yet trivial, circuitry. This means that if you have, say, a Winbond W83782D on a BP6 then you're ok, but not every motherboard with such a hardware monitor chip will be able to change fan speeds. From one of the very first hardware monitor chips that could be found in standard PCs, the National Semiconductor LM75 (and all of its clones, like the Philips NE1617 and the Philips NE1618 or the Maxim MAX1617) or the Analog Devices ADM1021, such chips have been greatly improved, both in their precision and in their capabilities. Current chips can monitor fan speeds, voltages and change fan speeds by using PWMs (Pulse Width Modulation). Some chips can even be programmed to vary fan speeds without any additional software intervention. If your BIOS was programmed to setup such chips this way you can still try to use SpeedFan's Advanced Configuration to revert to manual (software controlled) mode. Winbond W83697HF, Analog Devices ADT7463, SMSC EMC6D102, ITE IT8712F, National LM85C and Maxim MAX6650 are very good candidates. Some SuperIO chips include temperature sensors too. SpeedFan can automatically detect them and use their features. SpeedFan can find almost any hardware monitor chip connected to the 2-wire SMBus (System Management Bus, a subset of the I2C BUS) Serial Interface and to the ISA BUS and works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003 and Windows XP. It works with Windows 64 bit too. It can be minimized to the tray and is compatible with Motherboard Monitor 5.

If you have not got it, you can download it here:

http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
 

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Ok sorry you meen you want to know were the temp sensor are located on your motherboard

Yeah, exactly; I'm putting in more RAM this weekend, so I'll just use a hairdryer and see if I can find it.

And thx, Tatty, I already have SpeedFan, but it doesn't tell me where on the mainboard the sensors are located at.
 
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