cpu censers

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hello
ive currently building a new system anyway the new tower has cpu temperature
censer on it now there is a very fine wire from it does this go between the
cpu and the fan any ideas thanks dave.
 
david colley said:
hello
ive currently building a new system anyway the new tower has cpu
temperature censer on it now there is a very fine wire from it does this
go between the cpu and the fan any ideas thanks dave.
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hello [Hello]
ive [I'm] currently building a new system [missing period]
anyway [superfluous]
the [The] new tower has [a] CPU temperature censor [sensor] on it [missing
period]
now [superfluous]
there [There] is a very find wire from it [missing period]
does [Does] this go between the CPU and the fan [missing period]
thanks [Thanks] [missing period]
dave [Dave, on newline]

Review your posts before submitting them. You are trying to convery to
OTHERS what you are *trying* to say. The above was just a guess at what you
might have actually meant to say.

No identification of brand of CPU. No identification of model. "A very
fine wire from it". What might "it" be? The fan clips or screws onto the
heatsink and the only wire from the fan is its power (2 wires) and sense (1
wire) using a 3-wire plug that connects to a 3-pin header on the motherboard
marked for the CPU fan. "Between the CPU and the fan" should be a heatsink.
If the fan is on the CPU, it is either a very old slow CPU, like a 386 or
486 (or Cyrix's equivalents, maybe) but which often never had fans since
radiant transmission of heat was sufficient from a small heatsink glued atop
the CPU, or this user forgot to install the heatsink. Between the fan and
CPU should be a heatsink.


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
Need a little more info, such as, what is 'fine', where does it come from,
your power supply? and is it just one wire, or two, what sort of connector
does it have, and why do you think it is a wire with a sensor on it?

By the way, all lower case and no punctuation makes a post about as hard to
read as all caps.

Joe
 
Vanguard,

Thanks for clearing up that garbage of a post. I think trying to diagnose
his post is more difficult than what he is trying to figure out with his
sensor and CPU.

Vanguard said:
david colley said:
hello
ive currently building a new system anyway the new tower has cpu
temperature censer on it now there is a very fine wire from it does this
go between the cpu and the fan any ideas thanks dave.
Click to expand...


hello [Hello]
ive [I'm] currently building a new system [missing period]
anyway [superfluous]
the [The] new tower has [a] CPU temperature censor [sensor] on it [missing
period]
now [superfluous]
there [There] is a very find wire from it [missing period]
does [Does] this go between the CPU and the fan [missing period]
thanks [Thanks] [missing period]
dave [Dave, on newline]

Review your posts before submitting them. You are trying to convery to
OTHERS what you are *trying* to say. The above was just a guess at what you
might have actually meant to say.

No identification of brand of CPU. No identification of model. "A very
fine wire from it". What might "it" be? The fan clips or screws onto the
heatsink and the only wire from the fan is its power (2 wires) and sense (1
wire) using a 3-wire plug that connects to a 3-pin header on the motherboard
marked for the CPU fan. "Between the CPU and the fan" should be a heatsink.
If the fan is on the CPU, it is either a very old slow CPU, like a 386 or
486 (or Cyrix's equivalents, maybe) but which often never had fans since
radiant transmission of heat was sufficient from a small heatsink glued atop
the CPU, or this user forgot to install the heatsink. Between the fan and
CPU should be a heatsink.


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

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It's not "censer", it's "sensor". Learn to spell, and while you are at it,
learn how to punctuate. Most people won't bother to go through the extra
effort of attempting to interpret a poorly written message.
 
Ryan said:
Vanguard,

Thanks for clearing up that garbage of a post. I think trying to diagnose
his post is more difficult than what he is trying to figure out with his
sensor and CPU.
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My guess is the "fine wire" is not just one wire but a set of 3 wires (which
really aren't that fine; i.e., they aren't as small as inferred) and the OP
doesn't know where to connect it. This is a user that should NOT be
building his own computer. I can see him trying to jam in the memory
modules in backwards without a clue that they are keyed to the slot.
 
Vanguard said:
My guess is the "fine wire" is not just one wire but a set of 3 wires
(which really aren't that fine; i.e., they aren't as small as inferred)
and the OP doesn't know where to connect it. This is a user that should
NOT be building his own computer. I can see him trying to jam in the
memory modules in backwards without a clue that they are keyed to the slot.
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Back in the day, I soldered thermistors to 2-pin headers and connected
them to the appropriate spot on the motherboard to measure CPU temperature.

For the last several years, CPUs have had internal thermal diodes
accessible to the motherboard chipset - so current motherboards don't
have thermistor connections.

If the OP's system is even remotely new, it does not have an external
CPU temperature sensor. He's probably looking at a thermistor dangling
out of the power supply, which the PSU uses to control it's fan speed
based on case temperature.

As 'Bob I' said, the OP should RTFM - or perhaps in this case, ask
someone literate to RTFM for him.

Sunny
 
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