Does K8N SLI PLATINUM reads nb temperature?

Does K8N SLI PLATINUM reads nb temperature?
Because mine shows n\a in the corecenter

First of all, there's no Nortbridge on your board. There's an nVidia nForce chipset.
Then if you look in your maual on page 3-23, you see that there's a temperature reading in BIOS for your "System Temp".. That's the nForce temp sensor.

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    • APM support is not allowed on server products. This means that the APM tab will not appear and that there is no APM support in Windows 2000 Advanced Server or in Windows 2000 Datacenter.
    • APM will not hook up the standby vector on machines that do not have batteries. This means that on machines that do not have batteries, standby will not appear as an option on the Shutdown list, and will not be available as an operation.
    • Hibernate is independent of APM or ACPI; hibernate can be used on machines that do not have either APM or ACPI.
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    • To get hibernate, you must turn it on with the Power applet in the control panel.
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    The following provides guidelines for support personnel or expert users who are troubleshooting APM support on a system running Windows 2000.
    1.
     Make sure the user has APM turned on, hibernate turned on, and the battery icon turned on.
    2.
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    3.
     Run Apmstat.exe. Its output will often make the issue obvious (trying to run APM on a multiple-processor machine, for example).
    4.
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    5. If Windows 2000 APM has been turned off, and the machine is still not stable, try turning off the APM BIOS itself in the machine's setup     screen.
    6.
     Some machines will work better with Windows 2000 APM turned on, because this puts the operating system more in sync with the system's APM BIOS.

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