When the system is not powered then only that single transistor is relevant.
Also I managed to somehow kill the diode reading altogether from that chip now. I pulled it out and looked it over but can't find anything wrong with it. Nonetheless it always reads -1C now on either of the MAX6655's external ports. A transistor in diode mode works fine on both. Guess I should see if the CPU itself is dead but honestly I don't much care if it still functions as long as the diode isnt working. Guess I can desolder the wires and swap it into my 8k3a and see if it reports a gibberish temperature or not.
Crap. Oh well I am getting pretty adept at the CPU pin soldering and calibration procedure now at least.
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