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WiFi sensor temperature increases when disabling wifi

For some strange reason, when I disable wifi with the nmcli command nmcli radio wifi off I see an immediate rise in the wifi sensor temperature, from around 30C to more than 60C. Because of this, I ...
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High fan speed when touching the left underside of my laptop

Problem When i touch the left underside of the laptop the fan speed goes up drastically Other than in this situation, the fans almost never spin up (unless i run something like a 3d game or do heavy ...
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What are the 3 temperatures (composite and sensors) reported by a WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe?

I have a WD_BLACK SN770 SSD NVMe that may be running too hot under load. So to monitor it, I installed Western Digital Dashboard and it reports 3 temperatures: Libre Hardware Monitor reports 3 ...
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How to find the position of a sensor?

I found critical temperatures in my computer using Libre Hardware Monitor. Sensor #3 shows 95°C and sensor #6 83°C. I tried to find out, where these sensors are. But I can not find it in the manual. ...
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How to convert sensor SPI/I2C output to serial (RS-232)? [closed]

I have a home automation project which requires me to connect small, temperature/GPS sensor boards (normally used in Arduino/Pico project and output to SPI/I2C) to an industrial controller which uses ...
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Is there any issue to motherboard sensor if i always use temp sensor app like openhwminotor?

I always minimise openhwmonitor which gives temp sensor readings. Is there any problem to my motherboard or is it stress system if i do it????
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Reasonable Limits (alarm) for sensor temperature (lm-sensors)

Using sensors command (package lm-sensors) one finds out values (mainly temperature). I guess it is not useful at all, if one is not capable of estimating which values are critical? How to find ...
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Trying to find the general temperature sensor of my CPU

I recently have downloaded this free-software called HWiNFO that lets me make graphs with the temperatures, and automatically does the average temperature of a sensor in a specific time, which I found ...
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Location of temperature sensors on the mainboard?

I installed PSensor in order to monitor and adjust the CPU fan speed on my ThinkPad R60 (which was overheating) and was surprised to find a total of 14 different temperature readings: It seems there ...
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strange cpu temperature - reasons

I encountered a rather strange issue: I have an Intel Coffee Lake, Core i9 9900KF 3.6GHz running on a MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON. Couple of hours ago I decided to check temperatures (for no ...
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SpeedFan suddenly stops being able to detect controllers and sensors mid game

so I'm playing games on my PC and I have some fan control setup using SpeedFan for my PWM fans which usually works really nice. However, the other day my game wasn't running so smoothly and I saw that ...
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Create Discovery Rule for Zabbix Agent

I am trying to create a discovery rule to automate task of creating new items for temperature sensors. We have inbuilt key:sensor[device,sensor,. I had added sensor name manually key: sensor[coretemp-...
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What temp sensors does my motherboard have?

How can I tell what temperature sensors my motherboard has and then be able to know what those sensors are when looking at various monitoring programs?
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Cpu is reporting its at 108 Celsius

My CPU in my HP Laptop ENVY TouchSmart m6-n113dx AMD FX-Series FX-7500 (2.10GHz) 6GB Memory 750GB HDD AMD Radeon R7 Series 15.6" Touchscreen Windows 8.1 1 Year warranty is reporting its at 108 Celsius ...
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How fast should a hot laptop's fan spin?

I am having some problems with my T420 Lenovo laptop overheating. The fan is working, in that I feel air being blown and can hear it when I put my ear near the heat sink fins. I have noticed however, ...
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Identifying temperaturs of sensors output

I need some help with interpreting the output of the sensors command. I use it together with watch to have updated live temperatures. Part of the output is this: f71882fg-isa-0a00 Adapter: ISA ...
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Why is my motherboard's CPU temperature inconsistent with the individual core temperatures? [duplicate]

This image demonstrates what I'm talking about: The motherboard's CPU temperature is in green. The individual cores' temperatures are in red. I've tested the temperatures in three different ...
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What does the confidence value mean on the output of sensors-detect?

Sample output of sensors-detect taken from here: Driver `coretemp': * Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9) Driver `lm90': * Bus `SMBus nForce2 adapter at 4d00' Busdriver `...
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How to check CPU temperature on BAMT (Debian)

How can I check CPU temperature on BAMT? BAMT is Debian based bitcoin/litecoin mining distribution (kernel is 2.6.32-41 32 bit version). I've tried with lm-sensors, every time I'm using, I'm ...
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Temperature sensors showing high CPU temps, CPU not super hot

(For monitoring heating I have used SpeedFan, Ai suite II (asus mobo software), RealTemp and my bios (on an Asus Gene IV Rampage)) SpeedFan says 100-120 C RealTemp says 30-80 C at idle (30 C ...
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how to send temperature DS9097 sensor data to apache and keep an archive of it

I want to show at my website this temperature readings data. USB DS18B20 with the prolific adaptor PL2303. instructions for Debian are: apt-get install digitemp digitemp_DS9097 -i -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ...
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Computation of temperature using Temp Sensor Lm35 with LPC1768

I have connected a LM35 to ADC channel 1 of LPC1768. getting a value of 306(adc reading). Vref =5V For 12 bit ADC Step size = 5V/4096=1.22mV to calculate the output voltage. Vout in mV = ...
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Shut down on start up - faulty temperature sensor?

I have a packard bell Imedia 4145 about 18 months old. It shuts down soon after I switch it on. It will get as far as starting to load windows then shut off. Each time I turn it on it runs for a ...
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I need a replacement heat sink thermistor for a MacPro1,1 [closed]

I need a replacement heat sink thermistor for a MacPro1,1. I pulled the 5160's and replaced them with 5350's (2.66/1066). I then did the BSEL and VID mods to get them working at 3.3/1333. The heat ...
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USB thermometer that works in Linux [closed]

I am constructing a small robot based on an embedded board running Linux. I am looking for a USB thermometer device, which will work with the 2.6 kernel. So far I found a bunch of devices, but it's ...
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