Fiery

Here's a new AIDA64 beta release to further improve the SensorPanel feature: http://www.aida64.com/specialbeta/aida64extreme_build_1349_sensorpanel.zip In this beta we've applied the following improvements: - SensorPanel Manager - items re-ordering (via SensorPanel Manager) - item hiding (via SensorPanel Manager) - configurable default settings - Preferences / HW Monitoring / SensorPanel / new option: lock panel position - Preferences / HW Monitoring / SensorPanel / new option: lock panel size - SensorPanel item properties window position restoring - JPEG image support - bar frame support - shadow support (for labels, values, units, bars) You can launch the SensorPanel Manager and open the default settings configuration window from the right-click context menu on the SensorPanel. In the upcoming days we'll work on the mass re-configuration, items flashing, new bar styles, and profiling (export/import complete panel settings).

Thank you for the feedback

We've never got feedbacks about actual data corruption due to the sound stuttering issue, so I cannot confirm that I'm afraid. But given the fact that several bugs have already been revealed in Intel RST drivers, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be even worse BTW, from the next AIDA64 beta release the RAID SMART support option will be disabled by default. SMART support for Intel RAID arrays turned out to be a nightmare

I guess you have a RAID array in your system, connected to an Intel SATA RAID controller. Newer AIDA64 releases implement support for RAID member enumeration on Intel RAID controllers. However, due to bugs in Intel's Rapid Storage RAID drivers, in rare cases sound stuttering may occur. In such cases you need to disable RAID SMART support in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Stability. In order to have that option, you need to have the latest AIDA64 beta installed: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1346w6elk1ygzxzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. I apologize for the inconvenience, but the stuttering is actually happening in Intel's RAID drivers, and not in AIDA64. We of course have notified Intel about this matter, so we're hoping to receive a fixed Intel Rapid Storage driver suite soon. Regards, Fiery

The SensorPanel starts empty, so you have to add items one-by-one. Currently, once you have multiple items on the panel, you can not select multiple ones at a time to perform mass re-configuration. We'll add that feature soon. We'll also implement a "Default settings" panel too, where you can select your favorite color, font type, bar design, etc. And so when you add a new item, those default settings will be automatically applied on the new item.

Thank you. We've fixed the DIMM TS monitoring module of AIDA64 to better support your memory modules. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1346w6elk1ygzxzip 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. We've fixed the temperature readings on all Intel 6-Series mobos. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1346w6elk1ygzxzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

A quick update, to fix a couple of small issues: http://www.aida64.com/specialbeta/aida64extreme_build_1347_sensorpanel.zip

We're currently working on the new SensorPanel feature: Once it reaches a mature stage, we'll put the new features of the SensorPanel into the LCD module too. So you'll be able to put bars and graphs on the Logitech LCD as well.

We've just released the first beta of the new SensorPanel feature:

That phenomenon has nothing to do with AIDA64 being open, or moving the sensor module to an external module. It is caused by the hardware monitoring module of AIDA64. That polls hard disk drives and SSDs 3 times a minute, to read disk temperature. If you don't want that, you can increase the disk temperature polling interval (in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Hardware Monitoring), or you can completely disable the SMART layer of AIDA64 (in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Stability). --- BTW, we've just released the first beta of the new SensorPanel feature:

After several rewriting of this very complex module we've named SensorPanel, it has finally reached the stage that we can show it to the general public Please find the first SensorPanel beta in the following new beta release of AIDA64 Extreme Edition: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1455u8nmy1wgcbzip [[[ link has been updated to the latest beta ]]] After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. You can enable the new feature in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Hardware Monitoring / SensorPanel. You can set the update frequency for the SensorPanel in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Hardware Monitoring / Update Frequency. --- A couple of limitations and important things to know about this first SensorPanel beta: 1) Most of the settings are moved out of the usual place (the central AIDA64 Preferences), so you can control most properties of the SensorPanel items straight from the SensorPanel itself. Just use the right-click context menu to modify, remove or move an item, or to close the SensorPanel. We'll add more options into the right-click menu soon. 2) You can only put BMP and PNG format images on the SensorPanel right now. We'll add JPEG support later on. In case you want to add a full background image to the SensorPanel, make sure to use BMP format, since it is the most efficient way to handle large images. 3) Currently there's only one bar style, a solid (classic) one. In case you've seen a bar design that you think would look cool in AIDA64, make sure to post a screen shot here in this topic. We'd like to extend the range of bar styles to allow fancier SensorPanel design, and also to make it easier to tell various sensor item bars apart from each other. 4) We'll implement sensor graphs in the near future too, probably before the summer. In case you have an idea about a visual sensor item representation that is not a simple label, not a bar, and not a graph, then post your idea in this topic, and we'll discuss it. 5) Currently there's no way to re-order the items to allow better overlaying and to allow placing an image behind a sensor item easier. Currently you need to add the images first, and then the sensor items, to make sure the sensor items are shown in front of the image(s). We'll add a "SensorPanel Manager" feature soon, to let you have a quick overview on all the items placed on the panel, and to re-order the items. BTW, it's possible to re-order items right now, if you close AIDA64, and edit AIDA64.INI file in a text editor. Not a very user-friendly way, but please keep in mind that this whole SensorPanel feature is only in the first beta stage right now 6) We have a lot of plans to make it easier to handle the panel items, and to generally make the SensorPanel user-friendly. For example: - Lock the size of the panel, so the user cannot accidently resize it. - Lock the position of the panel, so the user cannot accidently move it. - Temporarily hide one or more items on the panel, and also to unhide them. - Flashing the sensor item when the sensor value reaches the "Limit3" point. 7) Even though AIDA64 doesn't warn you about this, but it's important to understand that when you enable a bar, and you select its Place as "Embedded", then you need to set the bar's Indent property to a non-zero value to let the label text fit there. If you leave the "Indent" at zero, the label will be hidden under the bar. 8) FYI, even though the SensorPanel feature was developed as a replacement for both the OSD Panel and Sidebar Gadget feature, it will not effectively replace them. So if you prefer the easier layout of the old features, you can still use them. You can even use them together, if you want. If you have more ideas about how to make the SensorPanel feature more convenient, let us know here in this topic. Thanks, Fiery

You're right about those points. We'll work on the Alerting module to make it more flexible and more usable in the upcoming weeks. I'll let you know in this topic once the "facelifted" Alerting module is available. Thanks, Fiery

Do you mean when the user on the remote computer receives your message, he presses the Reply button, and then AIDA64 closes the message window without enabling him to type in his reply? Or when he presses the Reply button, AIDA64 crashes and the whole application closes? Thanks, Fiery

I'm glad it worked out Thank you for letting us know.

Software running under Windows have no control over the order of the System Tray icons. Windows places them there, and it decides the order. Regards, Fiery

I'm afraid it's now Intel's task to fix their drivers. We keep reporting them the bugs we find in their Rapid Storage RAID drivers, but due to the way their huge corporate is organized, it takes multiple bug reports to start things rolling in their development labs. So you'll also need to report this to them. You can refer to the CSMISAS interface that we (and also other software like HD Sentinel, HWiNFO32) use to enumerate individual drives of Intel RAID arrays. As for connecting the DVD burner to the JMicron SATA controller: that would definitely help. Just make sure to switch the JMicron controller to IDE mode (not RAID or AHCI mode) in the BIOS Setup. Then you can re-enable the RAID SMART support in AIDA64 -- but make sure to do some more test runs with that setting too.

You're right, that is not normal. Please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Video Debug --> nVIDIA GPU Registers. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. Thanks, Fiery

100 MHz clock is reported because at idle your GPU is running at PCI Express nominal clock speed (100 MHz) to save power. It is a common power management technique of nVIDIA IGP GPUs. 1) That is a pure coincidence. All modern GPUs are equipped with a 400 MHz capable RAMDAC, but that doesn't mean it has any relation with the GPU core clock at all. 2) GPGPU device properties reflect the capability of the GPU, and not the actual speed it is running at. The actual speed is 100 MHz at idle, as reported on the GPU page. 3) IGP chips (like nVIDIA Ion) usually use the system memory as frame buffer and texture memory, and so it makes no sense to display memory speed or memory properties on the GPU page. Instead, AIDA64 shows the system memory type and clock rates on the Computer / Overclock and Motherboard / Motherboard[/b] pages. You can also have the system memory clock speed and timings displayed on the Sidebar Gadget. Regards, Fiery

I suppose this is once again caused by the buggy Intel RAID driver Please try to disable RAID SMART support in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Stability, and try to burn a few DVDs in test mode. Make sure to use the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1339qs1d0nycgrzip Let me know how it goes. Thanks, Fiery

Please try to re-enable SMART operations, but disable RAID SMART support in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Stability. Make sure to use to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1339qs1d0nycgrzip Let me know if it helps to eliminate the lagging. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you, we'll do test runs, but in order to do so, we need to narrow it down a bit. Please let us know more about the system in question: 1) CPU model, motherboard model 2) Storage controllers in use 3) Any RAID arrays defined? If yes, then exactly on which controller, how many drives, what drive models? 4) Any external disk drives connected? (USB, FireWire, eSATA) 5) On which controller do you have the DVD burner connected, and what DVD burner is that? 6) Video card(s) model Thanks, Fiery

Well, that's a hard question actually. In theory, the special temperature readings should be available by reading simple Embedded Controller registers, without any further software aid. But we suspect the readings are zero until a software enables them -- and that software may just be the Thermal Radar. So what I'd like to ask you to do is: install Thermal Radar, start it, check the readings in there, close it (you don't need to actually uninstall it), and then launch AIDA64, and issue the Embedded Controller Dump. You may also want to check the temperatures on the Sensor page after the EC Dump, since if our theory is right, they will be there. In case our theory fails, the other theory may be that you need to have Thermal Radar installed and running to let 3rd party software (like AIDA64) access the special temperature registers. We'd love to personally test both theories out in our labs, but we unfortunately have no Sabertooth P67 mobo in our "test fleet", but only a vanilla P8P67 that offers no such special temperature readings. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you. For some reason all special temperature registers are zero in this case. Please try to launch Thermal Radar, check the temperatures there, close it, and issue a new Embedded Controller Dump. Maybe Thermal Radar initializes the Embedded Controller to enable the special temperature readings. Thanks, Fiery

AIDA64 already supports DIMM TS temperature sensing for memory modules. However, you need to enable that feature in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Stability. Make sure to restart AIDA64 after altering that option. In case it doesn't work on your system, then please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Sensor Debug --> SMBus Dump (Full), and copy-paste the full results into this topic. Thanks, Fiery