On various systems it can happen that certain sensors in the areas of temperature, fan speed or voltage values display incorrect or unrealistic values. Depending on the system type, this can occur more or less often.
Why do some sensors show incorrect values?
The ones in toolstar®testLX and toolstar®testWIN The sensor values read out come from various sources. On the one hand, there are the operating system's own drivers, such as hwmon under Linux, and toolhouse's own interpretations and adjustments. Depending on the information provided by the sensor manufacturers, the output in the program is better or worse. Unfortunately, some chip manufacturers only provide their documentation partially or not at all.
What is the best way to deal with these incorrect values?
It is best to hide these sensor values in the live hardware monitoring graph so that they do not distort the display due to strong upward or downward fluctuations. All correctly read values also appear in the hardware monitoring history. Most incorrect sensor data can be identified very quickly because it is very unrealistic.
The most reliable are the CPU temperatures and fan speeds.
Bug fixes in future updates
With every operating system and program update, the interpretation of the sensor values gets better. The operating system drivers are constantly being improved and also toolstar®testLX and toolstar®testWIN receive continuous adjustments to automatically filter out incorrect sensor values or correct them if necessary . can also be read correctly with the next update.
