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    Many Things Missing On The Sensor Page And Lcd Configuration Panels

    in Bug reports

    Posted

    It looks like AIDA64 is unable to use its kernel driver. We've completely revamped the kernel driver in Build 1635. It means the current kernel driver cannot be loaded by an old AIDA64 version, and vice versa. Maybe while performing the upgrade you didn't overwrite the old KERNELD.* files with the new ones? Or maybe some other issue occured during the upgrade process.

    Please try to completely remove any AIDA64 installations you may have on your system, and restart your computer. You can keep your AIDA64.INI files of course, to keep your Preferences settings.

    Then manually download beta 1649, extract it into an empty folder, enter your license, and check if it works now.

    Let me know how it goes ;)

    Bug In Samsung Hd Smart Value Readout ?

    in Bug reports

    Posted

    That's normal. SMART data field for temperature values may or may not be a direct temperature readout (in Celsius). For some drives the lowest byte holds the temperature, and the rest of the bytes of the double-word value may hold minimum or maximum values too.

    In your case the data value is 2C0A0015 in hexadecimal, which would make it hold 3 temperatures: 44 Celsius, 10 Celsius and 21 Celsius. The lowest byte (21 Celsius) should be the current temperature value.

    Regards,

    Fiery

    Problem With Help Of Aida64 Exterme Edition (Engineer License)

    in General Discussion

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    AIDA64 has a complex hardware monitoring module that was designed to monitor temperatures, voltages, fan speeds and power draw. It was not intended to be used as a generic monitoring layer to monitor any sorts of system values. Recently we've enhanced it to cover special values like network download and upload rate, but it's still not capable of monitoring any kind of values. BTW, AIDA64 already monitors disk drive temperatures and alerts you when they exceed a preconfigured value.

    As for HDD health monitoring via SMART... We don't pursue that feature mainly because we don't trust in SMART. Most of the hard disk failures we suffered here in our labs were not predicted by SMART at all. On the other hand, we have a handful of hard disk drives where SMART says there's an imminent failure, but the drives happily continue working fine. There's a single Matrox IDE drive that's been in use for over 10 years already, with over 8 years of SMART predicted failure :) And it's still working fine today.

    But in case you want to constantly monitor the SMART values of your drives, and receive an alert when SMART predicts failure, I recommend you to try specialized HDD SMART monitoring applications like HD Sentinel:

    http://hdsentinel.com/

    Hp T5540 Sensors...

    in Hardware monitoring

    Posted

    I think your motherboard simply doesn't utilize the sensor features of the VT1211 chip, so all readings should be ignored :( In case you can ask HP directly about that, please let us know if there's a trick we should use in AIDA64 to make the readings work.

    Regards,

    Fiery

    Cpu Temp Wrong - Asus P8Z68-V Lx Mobo

    in Bug reports

    Posted

    In case Asus PC Probe II (part of Asus AI Suite 2) reports different values than AIDA64 latest beta (Build 1647), then please create a screen shot that shows PC Probe II and AIDA64 values side-by-side on the same screen shot. That would let us compare the values measured "head-to-head".

    The new Check for Updates and Automatic Online Update features

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    We've just released the first AIDA64 beta that implements the Automatic Online Update feature:

    http://www.aida64.co...47r2mcblkz7fzip

    After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade.

    Please note that the fully automated online update will only work if you have a valid AIDA64 license. With illegal license keys only the web download link will be offered, and the user will have to manually perform the upgrade by downloading the new ZIP package and extracting it to the existing AIDA64 installation folder.

    Ignore Virtual Cores, And Other Things

    in Brainstorming

    Posted

    Thank you for the suggestions.

    1) Virtual cores cannot be ignored, because it would make the CPU utilization measurement completely false. Even when the virtual cores are only working at 1-digit percentage load most of the time, such small load will still count. And with proper benchmarks and proper stress test modules (like what AIDA64 implements) it's quite easy to stress all cores -- incl. virtual ones -- to 100%. If you're bothered having your virtual cores sleeping all the time, then you may want to disable HyperThreading in the BIOS Setup ;)

    2) Less than a second polling time may be handled by your processor quite easily -- and in fact most multi-core processors could do that --, but the problem is not there. AIDA64 has a hardware monitoring module that has a set of sub-modules to handle various tasks. One of those sub-modules is for core temperature monitoring, another is for motherboard sensor chips, a third is for GPU monitoring, etc. etc. A few of those sub-modules use HID or COM (serial) port sensor devices like T-Balancer and Koolance. Such communication protocols tend to be very slow compared to other modules, which effectively means reading sensor values could last 200 to 800 msec (!), regardless of how fast CPU you have in your system. On top of that, when you have a high-end desktop system with 6 or 12 cores (1 or 2 CPU sockets), 3 or 4 GPUs (e.g. two HD6990 cards) with multiple sensor chips connected, the regular sensor readouts can also take more than 500 msec combined. Hence using a more rapid update rate could well mean a constant sensors polling or a deadlock.

    3) We'll check the LCD screen drag&drop ability, IMHO it's a good idea.

    Regards,

    Fiery

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