lm_sensors reports different cpu temp than bios

Alan Horn ahorn at deorth.org
Sat Sep 18 05:48:32 UTC 2004


On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Alan Horn wrote:

>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Alan Horn <ahorn at deorth.org>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: lm_sensors reports different cpu temp than bios
>
> 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..
>
>

Duh.. hang on.. I didn't read that.. lm_sensors is cooler than bios..

humm.. no idea.. sorry :)






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