Maybe its too hot or maybe its not

[howtheyhangin]

Can somebody tell me why my computer at start up shows a temperature over 90 then over a period of about five minutes drops to 33degrees
This shows up on motherboard monitor
I dont know which sensor it is reading my sensor chip is winbond w83781d
mbm tels me I have winbond 1,2 and 3 its 3 that shows a high temp reading
my computer is standard at the moment with only a fan on the power suply and one on the cpu
should I worry about this
any help would be good help thanks

[Da Whip]

It is probably because when you first power up the system is loading all the drivers and programs. After that is done it is at idle, so then it cools. I would run "msconfig" and go to the start up menu, uncheck everything but explorer and systray. Reboot and watch the difference. I would add another couple of fans, 1 in front blowing in and 1 in upper back sucking out.

[howtheyhangin]

I tried what you said and it made no difference. the only other thing I have done is wait till the temps levelled out . Noted the temps on mbm to try to find out what it is reading. Then I shut down waited 5 minutes then started up again going into my bios my bios gave me two temps identical to mbm which were cpu & system. At least I now know what winbond 1 & 2 are But not Winbond 3 After I got out of my bios and re booted The temps were where they were when I shutdown So I went back into configsys changed everything back to the original settings shut down and re started the mystery third temp remained at 35 degrees .
It seems to show very hot (98 degrees) only if its been shutdown for a couple of hours

[eradda02]

90 C or 90 F becuase 90 F isnt vary hot my cpu is always about 125 F

[Door Knob]

eradda02 (May 01, 2001 04:00 p.m.):
90 C or 90 F becuase 90 F isnt vary hot my cpu is always about 125 F

If it was 90C i doubt it would post. For that type of heat you would need to raise the fsb a ton, crank up the voltage, and remove the heatsink or if you got a tbird just let it idle :). But 90F sounds right on for a motherboard temp or a really well cooled cpu.

[howtheyhangin]

The reading is celsius

[Sketch]

OUCH!!! Burnt!!!! So SAD!!! :( I hope for your sake those temps are wrong. Have you tried getting the temp by using a thermocouple placed right next to the core during boot up and see what it reads? Just a thought. I would go right next ot the core under the heatsink. (NOT BETWEEN THE CORE AND HEATSINK) And try to get a reading that way