Speedfan must be buggy

[Fud]

This is the readings that show from it at the screen shot. The Cpu and Gpu look normal. But cmon 107 C for power and aux? It doesn't even say what power or what auxilliary.

If it was that hot then i could fry eggs or it would of caught on fire ages ago.

[c_hegge]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

That's a bug in the motherboard's sensors, not speedfan. It's very common, particularly on older hardware. It's nothing to worry about. I remember having a Pentium 3 machine where the BIOS would always show >105*C as the CPU temp (despite the fact that the cooler was assembled and the machine was running just fine)

[kc8adu]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

or the thermistors are not installed or maybe damaged?
you can run into this with oem boards reflashed to get back overclocking contols,ect.

[ratdude747]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

or the thermistors are not installed or maybe damaged?
you can run into this with oem boards reflashed to get back overclocking contols,ect.

therefore, could one then add the thermistor if the old one's value was known?

or would the other parts of the wheatstone bridge be missing too?

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

See Post#2.

I've recently installed SpeedFan and it's been a right bastard to set up correctly. Different sensors are often not picked up for various reasons, and not just on older machines. And some of my temps were in the minus hundreds! You also have to figure out what each value/parameter is correctly related to.

But after a shed load of messing about I finally have it (and my fans) running just how I want/need.

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

And AFAIK the onboard sensors are not accessible/replaceable, excepting maybe the case/ambient (that one is accessible on my rig)

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

@ Fud

You're lucky you get so many sensor values picked up and displayed. I don't get half of what you do, hence my struggle with SpeedFan setup.

If you have any problems let me know and I will see if I can help in any way.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

SpeedFan has been buggy for ages. There's CoreTemp for the CPU, GPU-Z for the graphics card, and for the motherboard you can just feel the chipset heatsink with your finger - most mobos don't have a chipset temp sensor anyway, and the "motherboard" temperature is reported as the case temp - and usually a lot lower than it really is.

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

Yeah, I have those installed too, Plus Sandra Lite and Speccy, but none of those can do what SpeedFan is designed for - altering the speeds of your system fans to suit your specific requirements.

[seanc]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

Hehe.

A few versions ago Speedfan would hard lock/crash the Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L boards whenever you ran it.
Onboard video? Black screen and locked up.
PCI-E card? Locked up but you could still see your now frozen video output.
We thought the one PC had a faulty board, but then we discovered that they all did it.

I (and a load of other people) reported it and it got fixed. I can't complain, I haven't paid for the software.
That made for some interesting remote support sessions...

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

Yeah, I can imagine the fun you had...

And yes, it's free, and it's now doing the job I want it to do, so after the ballache of a job setting it up I'm now very happy with the result.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

none of those can do what SpeedFan is designed for - altering the speeds of your system fans to suit your specific requirements.

Funny - that particular function never ever worked for me. Plus, my motherboard can control the fans on its own, and they're quiet even at full speed anyway. That's why i use 120mm fans at 1200rpm max. Lots of big, slow moving fans makes a quiet high performance computer.

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

My HP BIOS is very limited regarding user configuration - the only fan control is for setting idle speeds. When I replaced a single Xeon with two uprated Xeons both CPU fans ran continuously at full speed with no means to lower them. Enter SpeedFan. It's taken a lot of investigation and experimentation but I've now got all my fans running just how I want - and my case no longer sounds like a jet-engine test-bed. Bear in mind there are 7 fans plus graphics card that I need to control. One of the problems with setting up SpeedFan was sorting out what was controlled within each 'zone'.

[Scenic]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

Funny - that particular function never ever worked for me.

The only motherboard I've ever had where it worked properly was an Asus CUBX (S370).
On all others I've tried, it either had no effect whatsoever, or the fans went totally nuts (for example, 1 step down and the fans stopped, never to turn on again till you powercycle the machine.. wtf! )

I went over to Everest (now AIDA64). Can't control the fans from what I know, but the temperature readings are accurate on most boards (and it tends to filter out ridiculous values like the -255°C one board showed me in speedfan lol)

Plus it's damn handy for other stuff as well. Like looking up what hardware is in a sytem even if the drivers aren't installed yet for example.. or letting someone do a hardware report so you know what's in his computer without having to tell him over the phone/IM or whatever where to look, what to look for blah blah just to find out what motherboard he has, to then look up if he could upgrade the RAM or something..

[dumpystig]

Re: Speedfan must be buggy

I reckon the reason a lot of people say its rubbish or doesn't work for them is because they can't get to grips with the different parameters/values/settings. SpeedFan needs a lot of figuring out initially but if someone can't be bothered persevering they just give up and say it's crap. I found it frustrating at first and nearly gave up but there isn't really anything else that can do the job so I decided to carry on. Now I have the fans/temps just as I want them, so it has definitely worked for me.