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dandrea2 · 06-27-2003, 04:22 PM

I've got a question and was wondering if anyone here might be able to answer this.

I've been wanting to set up my system to read the CPU temp from the on-die diode of my AthlonXP 1700+ chip (TBred B core), but would rather try to simplify things and not have to build an extra board for the circuit if possible.

So to this end I did a little looking around and found out something interesting. My motherboard is an IWill XP333 (rev 2.1 I think, will have to check) that has the M5879 hardware monitor chip on it. According to ALi's web site, that chip has two temp inputs, one of which can do either a thermister or a diode. What I would like to do is change it so the CPU temp doesn't read the thermister under the CPU anymore, but read it from the CPU's diode.

I put in a request to ALi for a datasheet, but haven't heard anything yet after a couple days.

Does anyone here have any info related to this? Or maybe even info on someone actually trying this? :-)

06-27-2003, 04:22 PM	#1
dandrea2 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2003 Location: Leavenworth, KS Posts: 3	ALi M5879 info I've got a question and was wondering if anyone here might be able to answer this. I've been wanting to set up my system to read the CPU temp from the on-die diode of my AthlonXP 1700+ chip (TBred B core), but would rather try to simplify things and not have to build an extra board for the circuit if possible. So to this end I did a little looking around and found out something interesting. My motherboard is an IWill XP333 (rev 2.1 I think, will have to check) that has the M5879 hardware monitor chip on it. According to ALi's web site, that chip has two temp inputs, one of which can do either a thermister or a diode. What I would like to do is change it so the CPU temp doesn't read the thermister under the CPU anymore, but read it from the CPU's diode. I put in a request to ALi for a datasheet, but haven't heard anything yet after a couple days. Does anyone here have any info related to this? Or maybe even info on someone actually trying this? :-)