[mythtv-users] OT: Monitoring CPU/Internal Temperature through Linux

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 22:28:22 UTC 2007


lm_sensors

Mitchell

On 4/30/07, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure this is easily done, i'm just not sure how to hook it.
>
> As part of my "Why did my myth box just shut off on me...why isn't it
> booting back up...why does the motherboard always go out on me when this
> sort of thing happens" project, I decided that I wasn't happy with having a
> massive tower case sitting on top of my living room entertainment center, so
> I bought a "media" case for it that would fit into a compartment in my
> center.
>
> Now, the compartment isn't huge...as a matter of fact it's got maybe half
> inch clearance on top and about that much on each side if i'm lucky.  The
> case has input slots for air on the whole top and all down the sides so
> hopefully the half inch clearance on each should be enough to let the cool
> air in, and it'll all blow out the back (the back of the compartment in the
> center will be "open" mostly so hopefully it'll allow enough hot air out).
>
> This said, I'd like to not burn up a motherboard/cpu combo...the wife is
> already complaining about how much her "free" PVR has cost in recent months
> (Had to add an HD localy, setup a new NAS system with more space, and now a
> CPU/Motherboard/Power Supply blowup...that's what I get for running older
> hardware) and I'd like NOT to have to explain why her PVR needs another
> motherboard and CPU in it 3 months from now.
>
> So, in short, I'd like to get something somewhat graphical that I could
> watch the CPU/Internal temp with that could comfort me that i'm not running
> 150deg in the case.
>
> The motherboard is newish (if a little lower end, it's a lower end ASUS),
> and I know it's bios has the standard "PC Health" area to see fan speeds and
> whatnot.  Is there any software to run that will give me access to the
> values that the MB is putting out?
>
> Again, I'm sure this is VERY basic...running KDE.
>
> --Douglas Wagner
>
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