The grind of calibrating drifting hardware sensors
Sensor drift usually happens when the driver and BIOS interface aren't communicating at the same frequency. In report CIV-SENS-07, I noted that when RAM usage spiked between 14.7GB - 19.1GB, the temperature readings would just teleport. I booted into the BIOS, navigated to the Advanced Monitoring menu, and triggered a manual sensor calibration command. Back in Windows, I used Libre Hardware Monitor to verify, and the data deviation dropped from 13ms down to about 7ms. Package temps finally settled between 45℃ - 66℃ without any more fake alarms. The catch is that this calibration sometimes resets after a full power cycle, meaning I have to repeat this tedious process every time I update the BIOS.