I installed PSensor in order to monitor and adjust the CPU fan speed on my ThinkPad R60 (which was overheating) and was surprised to find a total of 14 different temperature readings:
It seems there is one thermal sensor for each of the two CPU cores ("Core 0/1") and one inside the hard drive ("SAMSUNG"). What are the other ones?
I thought there might be some duplicates, but looking at the time series they appear to be individual sensors. Does anyone have a source or documentation detailing their functions? Or could PSensor be failing to read out their designations?
Interestingly, while the other sensors seem to be close to heat sources, "temp5/6" appear to just measure ambient temperature.
The laptop is in use, so tearing it apart, searching and probing for thermistors is not an option.
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The sensors are soldered wherever the designers of the pcb decides to put them. This is for a different motherboard but you can get a good idea of how they are placed:
I'm certain with enough time and research you could find out where all the individual sensors are for your system.
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