AMD 3200 Hot Hot Hot Gigabyte BIOS misread?

[unborn]

Ok i made a post on this problem earlier when i first built this pc. Now that im looking back in the BIOS im seeing the temp is running 70c-90c even when i FIRST boot the pc up. Now i run "Motherboard Monitor 5" on my pc and it is reporting a IDLE of 57c .. these are 2 diffrent degrees.. Now i decided to see if the mother board still thought it was running 90c so i put on the temp alarm to 90c and let windows boot up. All the while listening to it scream its to hot even in windows it was still screaming it was above 90c but still this program reports 57c.

Now using the DMI utility that came with my motherboard Gigabyte K7 GA-7N400-L it reports my bios build is F10 but when i boot up my bios reports a F11 in which i did try upgrading and still reports same thing.

I now IDLE at 55c-60c and when i really do ANYTHING it runs up to 65c and then does the High Low High Low High Low beep. I am going crazy! I have taken off and on this heatsink and paste and tried diffrent thickness and pastes and nothing is working, a matter of fact it is now running hotter then it originally was!

I have some Arctic Silver 5 and a faster fan to replace the one on my heatsink with and i can only hope that this will fix the problem. But if it doesnt im going to need a new motherboard because im going to SHATTER this one. Or well i would much perfer a cooler mother board with alot less trouble.

Is there anything else you can suggest or any known problems or know why its reading diffrent temps or well any help? if not can you atleast suggest a GOOD motherboard for my Athlon XP 3200 that will run it alot cooler and has DDR400(3200) ram support and a AGP slot, and preferably 4 USB hookups. Im going absolutely insane!

Thanks for reading over my long rant and i hope you can help me some! thanks!!

Tony

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[unborn]

Heres the previous thread i made got some helpful suggestions but unfortunately no luck

thread602-985643

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in the end code will create man.
clones are coming only matter of time.
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[paparazi]

It seems to me with such a discrepencey between reported bios and harware monitoring temperatures you surely have a motherboard problem.

I would have said try a differant bios but it seems you have already done that, however you have good reason to RMA this motherboard if still under warranty.

The Gigabyte GA-7N400-L is a good motherboard but did have some issues (as did many other Nforce2 mainboards) of reporting temps inaccurately but as far as I am aware this was generally cured by bios flashing.

Other good choices would be:
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe or A7V880
Abit KW7-G or NF7-S version2
MSI K7N2-Delta2 Platinum or LSR

Last resort and not really a permanent solution, is just to remove the side panel and have a desk fan blowing directly onto the motherboard.

Martin










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[unborn]

Thanks Martin, Ill surely try one of those motherboards unfunny thing is though.. i do have the side panel off with a fan riight against it or sometimes away from it i have adjusted the fan in diffrent areas and speeds to see if i can cool it down, it lowers my case temp by 1-2c's but for cpu it does nothing. I believe my warranty is out with the company as well i read on resellerreport that they are good for shipping stuff out but good luck at returning anything so i guess im going to have to just pick a new mother board. Thanks for suggestion, i may see if i can RMA it anyways and ill just buy a whole new motherboard anyways and maybe start on a second computer if i do get the gigabyte one back.

Thanks,
Tony

in the begining man created code.
in the end code will create man.
clones are coming only matter of time.
examples?

http://planetsourcecode.com

 

[kmcferrin]

Are they measuring the same thing? I think that the Athlon 3200 lines have a temp sensor built into the CPU. There is also usually one on the system board beneath the CPU socket. Is it possible that one program is reading the CPU temp and the other is reading the temp from the mainboard below the CPU?

 

[unborn]

Both of them say CPU Temp so in actuallity no i dont know what they are measuring but i do know they both say CPU temp. 0.o

in the begining man created code.
in the end code will create man.
clones are coming only matter of time.
examples?

http://planetsourcecode.com