Fiery

Can you please create an ATI SMBus Dump after the GPU VRM temperature on the master GPU freezes? And another ATI SMBus Dump after restarting AIDA64 and getting back the GPU VRM temperature again. So we could compare the register output for the CHiL chips for normal state and "frozen" state. You can create such a dump by right-clicking on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Video Debug --> ATI SMBus Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic.

I'm afraid that's still normal At rest, when only 1 of the cores are stressed a little bit (because AIDA64 CPUID Panel dynamically refreshes CPU clock, FSB, chipset info, etc) your CPU momentarily switches up to the highest Turbo setting. While at 100% CPU load all cores are under heavy load, and so the CPU cannot switch up to the highest Turbo setting. Turbo Boost is designed so you could achieve the highest performance when not all of the available CPU cores are stressed.

1) Do other GPU-related readings (e.g. GPU Diode temperature or GPU fan RPM) also freeze when the GPU VRM temperature freezes up? 2) Do you have one or more HD7970 video adapters in your system? 3) Are you running any other video card monitoring, tweaking or overclocking utilities in the background? E.g. GPU-Z, AfterBurner, HWMonitor? 4) Please make sure to update to the latest AIDA64 beta release: http://www.aida64.co...49h5q0sfmjptzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know if the latest beta makes any difference.

If you use AIDA64 with default settings, and you don't navigate away from the default main screen, then no sensor readings should be updated or polled at all. Please try to revert AIDA64 back to default settings by deleting (or renaming) the AIDA64.INI file in AIDA64 installation folder. If it doesn't lock up after that, then it may have been a sensor-related feature enabled, that was polling sensors in the background. Maybe, as Squall Leonhart suggested, the AIDA64 ThinkPad EC sensor support module mixes up something in the mentioned ThinkPad models.

Thank you for the feedback

Thank you for the feedbacks Yes, the v2.30 stable version is on its way for a late March release date.

Please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Sensor Debug --> ISA Sensor Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. Using that data we can adjust the sensor readings to perfectly suit your motherboard. As for the AIDA64 System Stability Test, yes, we believe it is just as good or even better than competitive solutions. Our solution uses state-of-the-art methods like AVX and XOP acceleration, and now features an OpenCL GPGPU module as well. However, due to the fact that instability issues cannot be characterized or defined like a mathematical formula, there's no telling which stress tesing or stability checking solution would be able to catch an instability situation, or trigger a system malfunction while stressing the computer. AIDA64 System Stability Test is well-proven and favored by many enthusiasts, and we never stop improving it to make it even more efficient.

Thank you for your patience about this issue. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1849h5q0sfmjptzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works.

We've adjusted the power load measurement for HID UPS devices. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1849h5q0sfmjptzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you for your patience about this issue. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1849h5q0sfmjptzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you. The voltages have been adjusted in the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1849h5q0sfmjptzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works.

Please note that CPU load% measurement cannot take very short spikes into account. But those very short spikes will still make your CPU to switch power state either via ACPI states or C1E (Enhanced Halt State). We're 100% confident that the CPU VID detection in AIDA64 is done properly and provides accurate output.

It's not possible to measure VID and clocks in the same time. And between the time AIDA64 measures clock and VID the clocks or the VID may just change.

AIDA64 System Stability Test only uses high-level (file system) read operations, and only on local disk partitions. It will not harm any storage devices. However, since it uses file system operations, you need to have at least a few hundred files on at least one partition on the drive to let AIDA64 stress it in its System Stability Test module. Alternatively, you can use the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark module to measure the performance of your SSD. In default it will use low-level (direct) read operations, and will not harm or wear out SSD or USB pendrive flash memory cells. You can also enable write operations in AIDA64 Disk Benchmark, but it will cause some SSD drive wear, so you should use it with precautions. Regards, Fiery

That "CPU" reading is most likely a bogus one. What motherboard do you have, and which version of AIDA64 are you running? Thanks, Fiery

Such fluctuation is normal, and is due to AIDA64 polling several system parameters (e.g. memory timings, FSB clock, core multiplier, GPU clock, etc) in real-time on the Overclock page. And that makes your CPU to switch back and forth between idle power state and normal power state. Other, simpler software just poll a few system parameters in real-time, and that makes the CPU to keep working at idle power state. AIDA64 reads a lot of system parameters that uses much more CPU cycles. Regards, Fiery

Thank you. It seems AIDA64 uses nVIDIA ForceWare driver calls via the standard NVAPI interface to measure GPU sensor values. If that causes latency issues on your system, then I'm afraid it's the fault of the ForceWare driver

Thank you. Is the wrong value exactly 10 times higher? Or is it just roughly 10 times higher? Thanks, Fiery

What sort of operating system do you have installed? Is it Win7 64-bit? We'll check what may be wrong, although the uptime measurement code is quite old and well-proven.

Thank you for letting us know about the solution.

1) What motherboard do you have? 2) What version of AIDA64 are you using? 3) Please note that AMD processors may or may not feature an accurate temperature diode. It is a hardware flaw that affects a lot of processor parts Also, core diode temperatures will all become zero when ACC (Advanced Clock Calibration) is activated in the BIOS Setup. Regards, Fiery

Exactly. Some hardcore overclockers swear by using 3 to 5 instances of Internet Explorer or Mozilla, and simply browse the web in them on heavy Flash utilizing sites. They say it sometimes gets such issues come up that no other stability testing methods can.

Please let us know more about your hardware configuration. Motherboard model, CPU type, any external drives connected (USB, FireWire, eSATA), any RAID arrays defined? If no RAID, then what kind of AHCI driver do you have installed? You seem to have multiple ATI/AMD GPUs, what video cards are there exactly? Any APUs or integrated video chips? Make sure to use the latest AIDA64 beta version for further test runs: http://www.aida64.co...47lcsxfgtjmzzip Please also try to right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> HWMon Modules --> GPU. That will effectively disable GPU monitoring, so you can see if it is the GPU monitoring that causes AIDA64 to "eat up" one of the logical processors and fall into an infinite loop. Let me know if it helps. Thanks, Fiery

The gadget will be updated in the next beta. We'll also remove APIC clock measurement in the next AIDA64 beta, since that -- under Win8 Consumer Preview -- causes issues with CPU core clock measurement and benchmark results calculation as well. A bit more things have changed between Win8 Developer Preview and Win8 Consumer Preview than we expected. Who knows, maybe the Win8 Release Candidate will revamp even more things internally, on the Windows kernel level... Anyway, I'll post a message into this topic once the new AIDA64 beta is available.

Yes, I'm afraid a slight issue has slipped into Build 1847 about that. It sometimes works, but other cases it fails. We'll fix that in the next AIDA64 beta release. Thanks, Fiery