any ideas please

[scrivz69]

just built a system with a the motherboard asus ASU-A8N32D, alarm keeps going off,telling me its too hot, i aint over clocked it,or anything else im running it with a amd x2 4200 prosessor 4 fans and every things telling me it aint too hot any suggestions hopefully will help

thanks paul

[Jonny2Bad]

Is the cpu fan sitting right?

[Taxation]

Is the heatsink sitting right, is there enough thermal paste, is there too much thermal paste

[Ben]

What temps are you getting ?

[scrivz69]

checked the fan and its fine,and its running between 37-40 depending on whats running,so im a bit stuck

paul

[scrivz69]

just checked the temps again the mobo at 38 and the cpu at 37


any ideas chaps

paul

[Ben]

Check the BIOS to see if there's a setting that sets off an alarm at a certain temperature. Change or disable it if your certain it's giving a false reading.