Temperature monitoring on old desktop - Dell OptiPlex SX270?

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sun Aug 3 12:08:50 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:52:51PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:19:12 -0700
> Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:50:53AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > The first questions to ask are: 1) does this machine even have a H/W
> > monitoring IC on it, and 2) is it enabled/wired to thermistors and
> > fans?
> 
> Yes, but so far I haven't found out anything by searching.
> 
> > What processor is in it?  Not a Core2Duo.  I'm guessing since it's
> > circa 2004, probably a Pentium 3 or 4, or possibly an older AMD.
> 
> Pentium 4. From dmesg:
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (2593.51-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x4400<CNXT-ID,xTPR>
>   Logical CPUs per core: 2
 
Have you tried sysutils/mbmon? Or running 'sysctl hw.acpi|grep tz'?

Roland
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