My first question would be: did you check to see if the serial port is enabled? A lot of motherboards come out of the box with any serial or parallel ports disabled.

I just have the display with nothing else connected to it.

The computer in question is an AMD 64 3700+ on an Asus K8V-X SE motherboard. It uses a pretty typical winbond chip for temperatures. The software being used is SpeedFan. I have checked the load when using it, and it's generally never above ...

Ever since I plugged my MX2 in, I've had a much higher than normal CPU temperature. Idle is generally around 35C (95F) without the display. With the display plugged in it shoots up to 43C (110F) and stays there. Is this normal? I can't say I'm very comfortable with my CPU constantly running almost ...