AN-M2HD Reporting High Temp With Phenom

[Namnar]

Hi All,


I'm having a problem with a Phenom 9650 and an ABIT AN-M2HD Mobo. The CPU reports 60° at idle, with the clock freq @ 1/2 speed with cool & quiet enabled. This also matches the BIOS temp. When I monitor the core temps with Everest or Speedfan, the cores are around 38 - 40°. I was using the stock heat sink with Arctic Slver 5. I unseated it, cleaned and added new paste but the same result. I upgraded the heat sink to just a slightly better copper model but this only gave me a 2 - 3° difference in all temps. When I run the CPU at 100% (Video processing) The reported CPU temp gets to 88°, (The mobo shuts down at 90° max) and the Everest core temps report 59° at 100% usage. I do not see any performance issues. The PC runs great but I would hate to have random shutdowns while doing heavy video processwing. I have the mobo bios to the latest at Ver 20. I can revert back to 19 which is the earliest that supported the AM2+ CPU's. I havent tried that yet.

I sent an email with all of my test results to ABIT but got no response. I also spoke with AMD. The advice there was to esure that the heat sink has good paste and is seated correctly. Feel the bottom of the heat sink at idle. If it is hot to the touch then the reported temps may be real. My heat sink is not at idle. It is barely luke-warm. He then said to run the cpu at 100% for 10 minutes and feel it again. If the CPU is truly at 80°, it will be very hot to burning or untouchable. i havent did this yet.

Other notes - The mobo also reports case temp and PWM temp which are 32° and 42° respectively, at idle.

I'm pretty sure that this is a BIOS reporting problem...
Comments?
Is there anything that I can do about it?

I hear that ABIT no longer makes motherboards?
Will they still support the BIOS of these boards?

[BUFF]

if you are sure that it's a reporting problem (the system & PWM temps sound about right) then you can disable the BIOS CPU temp shut down.

whilst abit are out of the mobo business (indeed any business) they are still providing at least some BIOS support - we now have betas for 3 other AMD boards with Phenom 2 support.

[Namnar]

It would be nice if we had some avenue to make them aware of the problem so that that may fix it.

[BUFF]

you could try support@u-abit.eu (I have more faith in that than the US addy)