From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 17:40:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA0216A422 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:40:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60011.mail.yahoo.com (web60011.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CA7843D46 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 94100 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Mar 2006 17:40:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=B7ewI2QTgFEU+93/oEXVJ01Vgm10m7GNlvK0TQppJ3Vn4aRWAiRq6VlR/3n2NcKC21miEVcR91dWDyEFmtNuVG1u0LNj6I/7b0KRo2LNpDxe6G4a0+WQ2n5+ancMD8nndoNnZERCpb0o41A5ciQxvAIfYdV2LNwehIUKiNfH4WQ= ; Message-ID: <20060316174039.94098.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.222] by web60011.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:40:39 EST Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:40:39 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: Alex Zbyslaw In-Reply-To: <44199E69.8010407@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:40:42 -0000 --- Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Peter wrote: > > >The values I'm getting fluctuate wildly. Sometimes with a > difference > >of 30 degrees after waiting just a couple of seconds. > > > > > That really doesn't sound good to me, but I don't really have enough > experience of system building to do more than guess at the cause. I > would strongly suspect the heatsink/processor bond but couldn't be > sure. I have no idea if the actually monitoring chip could be > faulty, > for example, or if it could be a BIOS problem (problems related to > bad > temperature readings certainly *can* exist but fluctuating temps is a > > bit different). I looked into the BIOS of my other system with different m/b and (better) heatsink and I get the same readings (~42). I use OCZ paste on both systems and followed their application instructions for the Athlon 64. Both heatsinks are just warm to the touch. I also see on the net that there are tons of people with similar "problems" so I am closing this file as "normal". Case closed (no pun intended). Thanks for your support. -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com