done that a hundred times over...
Anyways, I'm pretty determined to solve that freaking problem once and for all, and not to wait for winter this time around. I used motherboard monitor so far to watch my temps, but I'm not very happy with it. So I searched for better tools, and found speed fan. Nice thing, but I don't understand the readings too well, I'm afraid.
It gieves me Temp1 to 3, HDD and core.
Temp 1 is constantly at 30 C, presumably the system temp sensor. Temp 2 gives 52 degrees, no Idea what it's measuring. Temp 3 shows 64 C for some while now, consistant with the CPU readout from mbm. HDD is pretty clear and no problem at 28 C steady (there's no activity after all).
And then there's the readout that troubles me. It's labeled "core", it started out the same temp as Temp2, but has been steadily rising since the computer started, until just a few seconds ago, where it reached 75 and the computer shut down. So, what is "core"? because that's where the mess seems to be... It might be CPU, and mbm got the wrong sensor readout. However, it should not shut down at 75 C then. oh, the mistery...
EDIT: discovered possibility that "Core" might be the temperature of the NVidia n560, which the board uses as main chipset. I just now discovered that it's usually at least as hot to toucch as the cpu, and the only other hot place I can find on the board. What gives?
I realigned my Vents a bit to get more air to the chip, now the CPU is getting hotter, but in a very awkward way... like, start up computer, get temperature warning before windows is even up, get a horror-number like 105 degrees thrown at my face from MbM, shut down, go into bios, look at temperature, it says 65 degrees. Like that temperature could have fallen a full 40 degrees in 10 seconds. I'm afraid something with my Temperature sensors isn't as it should be indeed. Solutions?