cannot view CPU temperature?

[lordsmurf]

I've got the Compaq OEM version of the Intel D850GB motherboard with an Intel P4 1.8 and 512 RDRAM.

Intel Active Monitor and several other softwares say I have no temp sensors? WTF?

I thought all P4/Intel boards came with monitors?

I've never worries about this until now ... PC has been on for about 5-6 days straight, with a lot of encoding going on ... I'll power it down overnight if it needs a cool down, but I have work I need to finish.

Anybody have experience at this?

[redwudz]

I had an older Celeron and I got a front panel temp indicator with a probe. Epoxied it to the heatsink close to the CPU with a little thermal compound under the epoxy. Worked well enough. You don't have any temperature reading in BIOS, either?

[Cobra]

My last PC (a Dell) didn't have a temperature sensor either, not even in BIOS. I would have had to do the same as redwudz if I wanted to see any temperatures. I think it's just one of the things about buying a big-brand machine - they don't expect you to be playing with it so they don't include features like that.

Cobra

[Capmaster]

I've got the Compaq OEM version of the Intel D850GB motherboard with an Intel P4 1.8 and 512 RDRAM.

Intel Active Monitor and several other softwares say I have no temp sensors? WTF?

I thought all P4/Intel boards came with monitors?

I've never worries about this until now ... PC has been on for about 5-6 days straight, with a lot of encoding going on ... I'll power it down overnight if it needs a cool down, but I have work I need to finish.

Anybody have experience at this?

I haven't had any luck finding a monitor for my work PC either. The last one I tried was Motherboard Monitor but it doesn't support the proprietary HP MB I have.

I'm wanting to get something for when I add the second Xeon to it. It already runs a bit warm. The MB has all the Winbond support chips for CPU temp and fan speed, etc.

I like redwudz's suggestion. Then we're not dependent on some third-party app to detect the temp hardware. Plus, his way is more accurate since thermocouples are orders of magnitude more accurate than thermistors.

[Mattsensei]

I used AIDA32 which worked for me.