jon00 motherboard & hard drive monitor discussion

[jon00]

Please post your comments, suggestions and bug reports here.

[JustOneMore]

Thanks Jon. Gonna play with it right now. Pouring rain here this morning and perfect timing for a new script!

[JustOneMore]

Great job Jon. I only ran into 1 hitch. In the speedfan2.txt and 3 and so on. All the scripts refer to speedfan.ini. I had to change 2.txt to refer to speedfan2.ini, 3.txt to refer to speedfan3.ini and so on.

Other than that it went off without a hitch.

My only issue is with my hardware. I get very minimal info from my machines. Not an issue with your script though.

Keep it up!!!!!

[smoothtlk]

So far so good John - Thanx!
One little thing - can you move the "This device is created automatically so make sure you set this value to a free virtual device!" up in the doc before the Create Event step! I had to go to a backup xml to see that thankfully I didn't have anything on S1 or S2 (at least I think...). They do tell you to read the directions front to back first....

[jon00]

JOM,

Thanks - I had done that but decided to modify the script slightly. I totally forgot to do the find & replace again on the new version and just renamed them

I will wait a bit until anything else comes to light before re-posting.

As for the information - yes it all depends on hardware. I am currently changing over from Motherboard monitor on all my PC's. My lowest spec PC has the most info:

CPU Temp
Case Temp
HD0 Temp
HD1 Temp
CPU fan speed
Case Fan speed
VCOREA
+3.3V
+5V
+12V
-12V
-5V
+5VSB
VBAT

I never saw the 5V standby or the battery voltage using Motherboard monitor!

[jon00]

David,

Yes, I can...

As you can see there is quite an amount of configuration to do. Perhaps I should have left out the device codes in the sample ini file to prevent it running.

[JustOneMore]

I get next to no info on 3 machines so far. I agree though. My cheapest machine shows the most. And sadly it's only HD temp and 2 fan speeds. Wonder why I get none of the info you're getting. Find it hard to believe info is this lacking - on all 3 machines!

oh well. I guess you get what you pay for in a computer hehehehe

[jon00]

JOM,

You can always check the monitoring within the bios. It normally has a page to show board temperatures, fan speeds etc. These should be also available to speedfan.

[JustOneMore]

ok. Just noticed something. All of my devices are created and named as they should be from the ini file. However, all the data for the device are identical for the 3 machines currently monitoring. Gonna dig a little and will report what I do or do not figure out.

[JustOneMore]

Alright. I am a buffoon! hehe
I forgot to change the speedfanlogpath. I stupidly left it at c:\program files\speedfan\ . Instead of the ACTUAL network that, forgetting that the script was actually obtaining the data from other computers across the net.

ie... \\LAPTOP\speedfan

All is well again

[jon00]

Easily done... That is in the instructions though

[JustOneMore]

"We don't need no stikin' instructions"

[lancenorton]

Jon - Fantastic script, have it working over two machines now.

Cheers

[Tom Kern]

Hey Jon, I'm only seeing one column with data in the log file--the seconds column. In the speedfan app, it looks like I have access to lots of data though nothing shows up. Ever seen that?

[jon00]

Tom,

You may have activated logging but you also need to tell Speedfan what you want logged. Look at the instructions I wrote - it tells you how to do this.

1:10AM here...I'm off to bed!