PFSense Thermal Sensors not working

[stephenw10]

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.

[kp206]

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[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)

[stephenw10]

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.

[Gertjan]

@stephenw10

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

[kp206]

@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 ;(

[kp206]

@gertjan yea, im running VM lol.

[mvikman]

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

[stephenw10]

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

[kp206]

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