What makes resetting CMOS a non-option? If you never reset CMOS, not even after first building it, that would have been an excellent reason you had troubles getting it to POST.
What's your question about socket temperature?
I tried to be as detailed as I could be without giving you a book
. I'll explain a little further. When I first built the PC I could not get a visual on screen. All I got was no display detected. I knew the GPU worked because I could pull it out and plug it back into my old machine and it worked just fine. All I would get on the new machine was a series of beeps, which I found out was a video card error beep. I think it was one long beep followed by two short beeps, but I don't recall now. That didn't make sense since the GPU would work in my old machine.
On another thread someone asked if I had swapped the system from UEFI to CSM, which I had not because I could never get anything to display, so there was no way that I could change any settings. While I was doing all of this testing trying to get the system to boot, I did reset the CMOS (many times lol). It turns out that the fix was quite simple...my graphics card was just old and it requires the legacy CSM boot method, but the motherboard was set to UEFI by default. Whenever I purchased the cheap GT 1030 GPU and put it in, I was able to get into the BIOS and change the boot method to CSM. I swapped the cards out once again and it booted right up with my old GPU.
The PC has been working for a few weeks now. No issues whatsoever. However, when I rebooted the machine yesterday, I opened the Dragon Center monitoring window that I typically leave up just to keep an eye on things and I was immediately alarmed to see that the socket temperature was reading 186C (366F). I assumed it was a bad reading or else something would have surely stopped working if that was the case. I rebooted again and went into BIOS to check the temperatures there. The CPU socket and the motherboard temperatures there show as 0C (32F). I'll show what I see in various monitors below:
Another issue that I saw is that the fans sensors don't appear to be showing their speeds any more. You can see CPU and Pump (nothing connected), but Sys1-3 are on the next page sitting at 0 as well. Those were reporting a speed prior to this reboot. What is even more odd is that even though the CPU fan is showing no RPM's at the bottom of this image, it does show that the fan is at 20% in the gauge at the top. This gauge does go up when I change the profile from silent to either balanced or extreme performance.