ASUS Zenith Extreme w/ BIOS 1607 working

[KeithMyers]

I helped a fellow BOINC user get up and running the asus-wmi-sensors driver on his ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme motherboard. I asked him to post his sensors output but he was unfamiliar with the workings of github, created his own repository to post the text file. I will put his repository link here.

https://github.com/captainiom/sensors-asus-extreme-zenith-rog/blob/master/sensor.txt
He and I questioned the temp sensors readings with the 216° C. on all the outputs. I explained the unterminated reading is normal. But I wonder about the DIMM 2 readings of 0° C. being different than that. I don't believe he has any temp sensors installed and he is unsure as he did not build the machine, a system builder did.

This was just a note that the ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme is a known working motherboard with the drivers as long as the BIOS is updated to 1607.

[electrified]

Thanks for the heads up - I will update the README to indicate the Elmor hacked BIOS is no longer needed.

[captainiom]

An analysis of what is right and what is wrong from the developer would be helpful
If direct contact is required please use demo@manx.net
I will be delighted to help
jsm

[KeithMyers]

I looked at your sensors output and I have no clue why I thought the DIMM2 readings were 0°C. See that they are the normal 216°C. unterminated values. So I assume that the DIMM modules if they have internal temp sensors don't export via WMI protocol and thus are invisible to the asus-wmi-sensors driver.

As I stated earlier, any unterminated temp sensor input header has infinite resistance which scales to 216° C. Only if you plug in a 10K thermistor sensor to one of the motherboard temp sensor input headers will you get a realistic and normal reading.

[electrified]

Hi,

The DIMM.2 readings are for the headers on the M2 daughterboards rather than RAM. See top right in this picture. https://bit-tech.net/media/image/2017/8/6b49d5b7-30ef-42c3-bfb4-439279f31748.jpg

Are you using the daughterboards? Do you have any sensors connected to them?

As Keith says, 216 would be the usual value expected when no sensor present, 0 would be different, but the driver just reports the BIOS provided values.

If you have nothing connected I would ignore those readings in the sensors config file. The example file shows how to do that: https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors/blob/master/etc/sensors.conf.eg

[KeithMyers]

Thanks for explaining the definition and locations of the DIMM.2 reading Ed. I had never seen a picture of the daughterboard adapter in detail. Ignore the readings as Ed says.

[electrified]

I'm going to close this as I don't think there is anything to do here the 0deg readings are an oddity, but ignore any not in use sensors via config.