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While booting i get a warning and i dont know what it means
so when i boot up my pc i have a warning saying
SMCTRL: Sensor 4 FAULT!
and i have to press a button to continue.
Any ideas what could it be?
i have a Fujitsu D3222-A1 motherboard
since you press a button and things continue normally and you can use the PC OK, I’m guessing it’s a g-force sensor, or fingerprint scanner, or temperature reader, or any number of auxiliary sensors that are nice to have but not required to run the PC.
are all the fans still spinning?
your BIOS is showing April 2014 - maybe upgrading that will help.
since you press a button and things continue normally and you can use the PC OK, I’m guessing it’s a g-force sensor, or fingerprint scanner, or temperature reader, or any number of auxiliary sensors that are nice to have but not required to run the PC.
are all the fans still spinning?
your BIOS is showing April 2014 - maybe upgrading that will help.
Hi! This is not a laptop its a pc if you want me i can send you the specs. The pc works completly fine after i press a button but i have a feeling that its a temputare sensor and if i had to guess its the cpus but when i check the cpus tempature everything seems real but sometimes when i just watch yt and nothing crazy i can hear fans spin up for a solid 5-10 sec and when i check it its still normal tempature (60C° ) all the fans work fine. i have no finger print scanner connected to the pc. i have thinked about upgrading the bios but i really dont know how to do that and its kinda risky bc i dont have a secound bios chip on my motherboard. I dont know what is an “auxiliary sensor” ill read after it. (my english gammar is not the perfect i tried to make it nice and readable)
I would not be too concerned about it myself.
more curious than anything.
try taking off the side cover and cleaning the fan blades, and chassis vents with a soft bristled brush.
lets get your PC specs.
get Speccy from here; Speccy - Download Builds
in Speccy, click File > Publish Snapshot > Copy to Clipboard > Close.
now you can paste (Ctrl+V) that link into a post.
One component Speccy doesn’t cover is the Power Supply Unit, so please also include the make/model of the PSU.
Speccy shows the follow which should be addressed;
[ul]
[li]BIOS is 10 years old, look to update that if there is any.[/li][li]you have 2 x 2GB memory sticks and 2 x 4GB sticks. the 2GB’s are 10 years old, the 4GB’s are new. the different sticks may cause issues.[/li][li]the 2TB Seagate drive shows SMART warnings.[/li][li]the 120GB Kingston SSD is down to 12% free space.[/li][li]the 220GB Microsoft storage space SSD also has SMART warning and is at 6% free space.[/li][li]the number of Hotfixes for Microsoft Defender is enormous, maybe a repair install will clean up those[/li][/ul]
nothing in the above would cause a sensor alert, that I can see, but it’ll be nice to tidy up.
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