[lm-sensors] how accurate?

[andrew@donehue.net (Andrew)]

Hi All,

I have a server (remote, 300kms away) that crash on me yesterday... 
Anyhow, I upgraded it to a 2.6 kernel after it came back up, and 
installed lm-sensors.  

Sensors-detect found the following modules to install:
i2c-piix4
w83781d
eeprom

(after installing the modules) - sensors gave the following output (see 
below):

I have used sensors on about 15 other machines so far, and the results 
always seemed to be accurate.  Is there a chance that the temps could be 
wrong? (I haven't used this module before). The machine is reasonably 
old, so I would not be surprised if the fans were broken...

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew.


Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580
Memory type:            SDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB):       512

eeprom-i2c-0-52
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580
Memory type:            SDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB):       512

eeprom-i2c-0-51
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580
Memory type:            SDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB):       512

eeprom-i2c-0-50
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580
Memory type:            SDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB):       512

w83782d-i2c-0-29
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580
VCore 1:   +1.50 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
VCore 2:   +1.25 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
+3.3V:     +3.31 V  (min =  +2.82 V, max =  +3.79 V)
+5V:       +5.08 V  (min =  +4.52 V, max =  +4.30 V)       ALARM
+12V:     +11.86 V  (min =  +0.06 V, max =  +0.00 V)       ALARM
-12V:      -1.01 V  (min =  -9.65 V, max = -12.28 V)       ALARM
-5V:       +2.59 V  (min =  +0.33 V, max =  -0.93 V)       ALARM
V5SB:      +5.08 V  (min =  +0.86 V, max =  +3.44 V)       ALARM
VBat:      +1.04 V  (min =  +0.03 V, max =  +0.02 V)       ALARM
fan1:        0 RPM  (min = 21093 RPM, div = 2)              ALARM
fan2:        0 RPM  (min = 16071 RPM, div = 2)              ALARM
fan3:        0 RPM  (min = 75000 RPM, div = 2)              ALARM
temp1:       +77 C  (high =    +0 C, hyst =    +4 C)   sensor = 
thermistor   ALARM
temp2:     +64.0 C  (high =   +80 C, hyst =   +75 C)   sensor = thermistor
temp3:     +64.0 C  (high =   +80 C, hyst =   +75 C)   sensor = thermistor
vid:      +1.450 V  (VRM Version 8.5)
alarms:   Chassis intrusion detection                      ALARM
beep_enable:
          Sound alarm disabled