[wellylug] cpu temperature reported incorrectly

[Simon .]

I'm putting together a new PC, and I've noticed that the CPU temperature 
reported in the BIOS is wildly inaccurate.

On a cold morning, I've turned on the PC, and gone into the BIOS pc health 
screen as fast as possible, and the system temperature is reported as about 
20C, yet the cpu temperature is a whopping 40C. Thats quite a feat for it to 
heat from room temperature (16C) to 40C is less than 10 seconds.

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Socket A Motherboard, with an 
NVIDIA AWARD FJ bios.
The original bios version was FH, and that reported the temperature as 50C, 
even higher than now.
I dont seem to be able to find any newer versions of the bios.

The cpu is a 2800XP and the heat sink is a Volcano 12. After running for a 
while, the temperatures settle to system:30C and cpu:50C.
This make me believe that the bios is reporting the temp at least 10-20 
degrees higher than what it really is.
I have exactly the same cpu and hs on another machine, and that is capable 
of keeping the cpu temp as low as 30C.

Does anyone else own this board and have the same problem?


Cheers,
Simon Antliff

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