Help: Machine says it's running hot

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/25/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 3:46 PM -0500 10/25/06, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> >>On 10/25/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>At 1:26 PM -0500 10/25/06, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>>The output from `sensors` seems incorrent to me, temperature wise at least:
> >>>>
> >>>>Case Fan:    0 RPM  (min = 1318 RPM, div = 128)
> >>>>CPU Fan:  2721 RPM  (min = 1704 RPM, div = 8)
> >>>>fan3:        0 RPM  (min =   79 RPM, div = 128)
> >>>>fan4:        0 RPM  (min = 21093 RPM, div = 64)
> >>>>Sys Temp:    +37°C  (high =   +45°C, hyst =   +40°C)
> >>>>CPU Temp:  +52.5°C  (high = +45.0°C, hyst = +40.0°C)
> >>>>temp3:    +123.0°C  (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C)
> >>>
> >>>The CPU temp looks fine, but the high limit and hyst are too low.  Also for
> >>>Sys temp.  Temp3 looks bogus; does it start lower when the system is cold,
> >>>or is it always 123C?
> >>>--
> >>
> >>I seriously have to readup on this, feel free to suggest a search query or
> >>urls.
> >
> >
> > man sensors, man sensors.conf, less /etc/sensors.conf, man sensors-detect.
> >
> > sensors-detect and hope for the best?
>
> I already suggested these to him, and he seems to have ignored
> me. /etc/sensors.conf has some really nice commentary.
>
> Mike
>

Sorry, I did take your advice at the time, and went through the
massive file that is /etc/sensors.conf. When I asked the question the
second time, I was hoping for a link to a useful HOWTO, I already know
how to access most of the man pages.

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