Is it safe to ignore the lm-sensors voltage alarms?
I am building a small NAS server, the motherboards is a Intel D2700MUD (fanless) and the PSU is "Ace Outburst 480W". After installing Ubuntu Server, I installed lm-sensors. The output:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +38.0 C (high = +80.0 C, crit = +100.0 C)
Core 1: +33.0 C (high = +80.0 C, crit = +100.0 C)
w83627dhg-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
Vcore: +1.22 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V)
in1: +1.02 V (min = +0.58 V, max = +1.06 V)
AVCC: +3.38 V (min = +2.78 V, max = +0.64 V) ALARM
+3.3V: +3.38 V (min = +0.82 V, max = +0.59 V) ALARM
in4: +1.03 V (min = +1.25 V, max = +0.42 V) ALARM
in5: +1.52 V (min = +1.78 V, max = +0.51 V) ALARM
in6: +1.02 V (min = +0.16 V, max = +0.10 V) ALARM
3VSB: +3.34 V (min = +1.65 V, max = +1.15 V) ALARM
Vbat: +3.22 V (min = +2.34 V, max = +1.02 V) ALARM
fan1: 0 RPM (min = 2109 RPM, div = 128) ALARM
fan2: 0 RPM (min = 458 RPM, div = 128) ALARM
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 234 RPM, div = 128) ALARM
fan4: 0 RPM (min = 659 RPM, div = 128) ALARM
fan5: 0 RPM (min = 5273 RPM, div = 128) ALARM
temp1: +44.0 C (high = +35.0 C, hyst = +32.0 C) ALARM sensor = diode
temp2: +110.5 C (high = +80.0 C, hyst = +75.0 C) ALARM sensor = diode
temp3: +30.5 C (high = +80.0 C, hyst = +75.0 C) sensor = diode
cpu0_vid: +2.050 V
Do I need to be worried about the voltage alarm on in4,in5,in6.. or temp1/temp2?
Solution 1:
The limits aren't configured correctly, they're probably defaults or from some other board. For example:
+3.3V: +3.38 V (min = +0.82 V, max = +0.59 V)
That looks reasonable for a 3.3V supply, but the limits are completely out, and the max is lower than the min!
temp2 looks a bit worrying, but that may also be a misconfigured sensor.
Solution 2:
Voltages are rarely reported by drivers correctly, because a scaling factor needs to be applied to the limited range of the internal sensors.
See this page for a description and tutorial of how to fix the scaling factors for your particular system setup:
http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/VoltageLabelsAndScaling
Once you know which sensors are reporting which voltages, and the numbers are scaled correctly, you can setup or max and min values appropriately. The page above gives an example of this.