My gf's comp is an 'Advent T9207' which has a 'MSI-7255' motherboard. I want to know roughly the cpu temprature, as the heatsink in it looks craptastical and keeps spinning up to maie a right racket. I reckon the spare Artic Cooler I have lying around will fit it, but the problem is I dont want to do this without having a look at the temps and the bios appears to have no temprature readings, and Coretemp and TAT are both unable to detect tempratures. Do some 775 motherboards simply (and stupidly) not have temprature readings at all? Help?!
Is it a Celeron-D? The stock Intel heatsink for some of them is surprisingly crap. Perhaps try Speedfan, or SiSoft Sandra.
Chances are that if it's not in the BIOS it's not there. Unless, of course, there's a hidden area of the BIOS. What I would suggest is that Advent have simply disabled the feature on the mobo by implimenting their own BIOS. If any program can guess the temp, I would say that the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool (or whatever it's called now) would be able to. You could simply download the BIOS for the mobo (if available) and then reflash it back to standard (assuming Advent have been playing about).
Yeah I'm hoping to flash with the standard bios and see how it goes. And yup it's a celeron D with a nasty round intel sink that appear to get constantly clogged with dust. I imagine it would probably be safe to assume that an artic cooler pro will perfrom much better....but i dont want to mount it and find it dosnt quite fit or something and fry the chip because i cant c the temp. Whats a safe temp for old intels anyway? (used to be an amd chappi before core2duo)
Celeron D's are all good to 67 degrees C, just a bit warmer than most Core2 chips. If you can't find a way to get thermal readings, there's a somewhat less scientific way of making sure the computer is running at a safe temperature - if it doesn't crash, it's safe. Replace the cooler with whatever you've got from that era (Socket 775 Celeron D's are all 84-watt processors - the same as the majority of single-core P4s, and about the same as early Athlon64's and faster Athlon X2's). If the computer remains stable then the processor is almost certainly at a safe temperature. Obviously, you may not want to overclock or install unusual cooling using this technique, but it's more than accurate enough for swapping in a quieter heatsink.
