Yowie ! Wowie ! Hot temps on Tiger2460

[jboy]

The phoenix bios on this mb is reporting cpu temps of 75-76C, is this real ? The HS's feel warm to the touch, (couple of Volcano 6's w/delta screamers on them), but not particularly hot. Anybody know if this board gives inaccurate temperature readings ?

Also, is setup and OS loading on a dual machine the same as on single cpu box ? I cant get to an A:/ prompt using a win98 startup disk, (I get a system I/O disk error-remove and press any key message), is there a different setup procedure for dual machines ? Want to ultimately load Win2000 on board, but have to setup HD using fdisk first..

 

[FunkDaMonkMan]

hit enter to refresh the temp settings

the first settings that show up are bogus... after that it will show the correct settings.

use a program called tyantemp to monitor your temps from windows. All other programs get it all wrong.

 

[FunkDaMonkMan]

setting up an OS is the same on a dualie...

make sure the ribbon on the floppy is the correct way... and make sure the boot disk works on another computer .... i spend many hours in frustration trying to get a boot disk to work.. only to find out that it was a broken disk.. doh!

 

[cmcquistion]

Windows 2000 can partition your hard disk during installation. No need to set it up beforehand, unless you want to customize your partitions and stuff.

I have the same issue on my 2460, I always just press the down arrow and it refreshes. Mine usually idles around 40C in the BIOS.