lm_sensors reports different cpu temp than bios

Alan Horn ahorn at deorth.org
Sat Sep 18 05:46:29 UTC 2004


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:37:27 -0500
>From: Christopher J. Bottaro <cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: lm_sensors reports different cpu temp than bios
>
> hello,
> i'm a bit confused as to why lm_sensors reports a much different cpu
> temperature reading than my bios (i.e. when i startup my computer, enter
> the bios setup screen and go to pc health status).  lm_sensors reports
> roughly 20 degrees (C) cooler.  i'm using lm_sensors-2.8.6-1.
>
> thanks for the help.

At a guess...

When you start up your computer, your CPU isn't really doing an awful lot.

The temperature can change rapidly once its starts drawing power, 
especially after you boot the OS, it will have done quite a lot in the 
last few minutes there..

I could be wrong of course..





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