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      kp206 @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 Hi Stephenw10, The hardware im using is a Intel i7-8700 CPU.

      My apologies for posting this on the hardware form.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        No worries, it's a hardware question.

        Have you enabled the Core Temp driver by selecting it from the Sys > Adv > Misc menu?

        You should see it in the boot log if it attaches correctly. Something like:

        Dec 16 20:39:26 	kernel 		coretemp0: <CPU On-Die Thermal Sensors> on cpu0 
        

        Steve

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          kp206 @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 Hey, sorry for the late reply, i've been working two jobs just to get by these days. I just had some free time to look.

          I tried all of the settings.
          Cryptographic Hardware:
          AES-NI CPU-Based acceleration

          Thermal Sensors:
          Intel Core CPU on-die thermal sensor

          Thanks you again @stephenw10

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            And it's not showing a value? Or attaching at boot?

            Hard to imagine that CPU doesn't have the required digital sensors in the core.

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              kp206 @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10 Screenshot 2022-12-20 at 11.34.26 PM.png Screenshot 2022-12-20 at 11.32.49 PM.png Screenshot 2022-12-20 at 11.32.17 PM.png

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                kp206 @kp206
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                @kp206 Screenshot 2022-12-20 at 11.39.27 PM.png

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                  mvikman
                  last edited by mvikman

                  That CPU Type info looks weird...
                  Three single core CPUs...?

                  I have one 4-core CPU and CPU Type info shows:
                  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
                  4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

                  pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                  Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
                  Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
                  HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
                  HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Indeed, no way that's supposed to be 3 CPUs!

                    I assume that's real hardware, not a VM? Do you have anything disabled in the BIOS?
                    That should be a 6 core (12 thread) CPU.
                    Whatever is causing that could well be hiding the thermal sensor interfaces too.

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                    • GertjanG
                      Gertjan @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10

                      A VM for sure.
                      Or a processor die with a split personality.
                      Or some serious hardware modding !

                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        kp206 @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 oops, forgot to mention it was running on VM ESXI. But i didn't think that would matter. I was afraid that was the cause of my temp not reading. Bummer ;(

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                          kp206 @Gertjan
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                          @gertjan yea, im running VM lol.

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                            mvikman
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                            I don't think there's any way to expose hardware sensor to a guest VM, hypervisor level only.

                            pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                            Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
                            Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
                            HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
                            HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Yup, I've never seen a hypervisor expose the on die thermal sensors like that.

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                                kp206 @stephenw10
                                last edited by kp206

                                @stephenw10 I'm thinking it needs all CPU cores in order for the temps to work properly. Thanks for the help. Happy holidays!

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