MotherBoard Temperature

[Foordy]

I have an ASUS motherboard, and I am not sure if it ever worked, but my motherboard fan is not working after opening it up and checking.
I receive a temp of 41celcius, which I don't think is so good.
The highest it gets is 41celcius, and it stays on it and hasn't changed so far.
Is 41 ok, why has my motherboard fan stopped, I only noticed when I opened my comp and checked fans when I replaced my CPU fan.
Foordy.

 

[paparazi]

MORE INFORMATION!!!!

Temperature depends on your hardware configuration.
But 41C is pretty damn cooooool for CPU temp, just as an example I build lots of systems with differant motherboards and setups, I would say an Athlon XP2.0+ idles around the 48C mark generally, and a few degrees cooler for 1.7/1.8+ at around 42-46C approx, where as a XP2.1+ Palomino idles around 50C, of course this depends greatly on the room temp that the PC is operating in. (In the UK, room temp approx 22C)

Again I can only guess that you are talking about the Northbridge chipset fan on your motherboard, these fans are a pain, they often seize up and require periodic removal, then clean up and lube with thin grade oil.
Just revove the sticker from the reverse of the fan and apply a couple of drops of light oil, use a Qtip or similar to thoroughly remove all dust build up in the fan.
Make sure the fan is spinning freely before refitting.
Martin
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[Foordy]

From reading my ASUS manual, I see under Specifications :
North Bridge System Chipset
and
"Super South" South Bridge System PCIset

I am sure the normal temp is around 20s celcius, right?
Is it doing damage at 42celcius (now 42 after a day of uptime), and also is it definately needed for this fan to be running?
Also 1 more thing, why are they so faulty?

 

[paparazi]

I think that there is a little confushion here, the two temperature readings are usually:
CPU (main processor, Celeron, P4, Duron, Athlon etc)
and
Case temperature or mainboard temp, (this reading usually comes from a surface mounted sensor probe often located below the last PCI slot).
I have never seen temperature readings for North or southbridge chips unless an additional temperature probe is used.
What you find is manufactures adopt differant cooling methods ie: passive (just a heatsink) and active (heatsink AND fan) The active type "with fan" employs a SMALLER heatsink so the fan MUST work to cool adequately unless you replace it for a larger PASSIVE type heatsink.
A company called Zalman offer a large PASSIVE type replacement for silent operation.
Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[Foordy]

MB temp. It says so in "Hardware Sensors Monitor" program I have and also in my BIOS.

 

[Kocky]

42 celcius for the motherboard isn't that high.
My ASUS A7V8X is usually around 39 celcius and my
processor(AMD ATHLON XP 2400+) around 42 celcius.
You say you're motherboard fan is dead. I never knew a motherboard had a fan. I only know the CPU, AGP card, PC case and the power supply have a fan. If the fan of your cpu is dead then I'd advice you to get a new one.

 

[Foordy]

I just replaced my CPU fan to one with also a heatsink, as it gets hot here in Australia.
I am actually talking about my motherboard, which also has a fan to it, and it is a small fan called "ARX CPU COOLER".