Fiery

1) Please copy-paste the full content of the Computer / Sensor page of AIDA64 v1.50 into this topic. 2) Then right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 v1.50 main window --> Sensor Debug --> ISA Sensor Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. 3) Also right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 v1.50 main window --> Sensor Debug --> SMBus Dump (Full). Copy-paste the full results into this topic. Based on that data we can check what happened to the temperature labels. Thanks, Fiery

Nothing has changed in AIDA64 v1.50 about the External Apps feature, so what worked with AIDA64 v1.20 should still work with AIDA64 v1.50. Make sure to enable that feature though, in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Hardware Monitoring / External Applications.

Please check Q#10 in our Knowledge Base: http://www.aida64.com/support/knowledge-base Regards, Fiery

We've made an AIDA64 Rivatuner plugin that you can download from: http://www.aida64.com:8081/rivatuner_aida64_monitoring_plugin.zip

The requested items are implemented in the today's update for AIDA64: http://www.aida64.com/news/finalwire-rolls-out-aida64-v150 Regards, Fiery

It looks great, thank you for letting us know. Regards, Fiery

I guess the mixup came from the fact that you first obtained a free upgrade in our original campaign (that ran between Oct 06 and Oct 20). In that campaign EVEREST customers were entitled to receive a free upgrade to AIDA64 v1.00. The critical information there was: v1.00. Even though the free upgrade key then was intended to be used only for AIDA64 v1.00, it was good for AIDA64 v1.20 as well. But then it stopped working with AIDA64 v1.50. I guess your new AIDA64 upgrade license was then obtained using the current upgrade procedure, so it will be valid for the same maintenance period than your original EVEREST license. It means you can use it with AIDA64 latest version as well.

Please drop an email at the following email address, and our Licensing Department will check out what's wrong with your AIDA64 key. Make sure to indicate your name and AIDA64 license key, so our staff can identify you. upgrade AT aida64.com (replace AT with @)

Such temperature readings are usually read from the onboard sensor chip, but not from the usual CPU or Motherboard registers. So they could either mean a special temperature (e.g. PWM temperature, chipset temperature, DIMM temperature), or an invalid reading. You can check out the Computer / Sensor page to see if those 2 special readings are valid or not. Regards, Fiery

AIDA64 licenses are not limited by version number, but only by time constraints (maintenance limit). You can use AIDA64 v1.50 with the same AIDA64 license. You will also be able to upgrade to any AIDA64 beta or stable version that will be released before your maintenance period expires (Sept 2011). Regards, Fiery

Thank you for your kind words I'm sorry for the late reply, but we've been very busy with the new AIDA64 release we could finally roll out today: Regards, Fiery

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Thank you. It's rather weird that it stalls at the nVIDIA RAID array. If it's not too much trouble, can you please try to perform the same HDD SPTI Dump with the USB card reader disconnected? It would be great if we can narrow this down to either the RAID array or the card reader. Thanks, Fiery

The confidential info may not need to be released. AFAIK DES 2 and DES Advanced applications use a NT service to measure power draw, and report it via a text file (INFO.DAT). Sounds like a way that could be used by 3rd party applications as well. However, the service stops reporting the values when the DES main application is not running So it's not really useful that way.

Thank you. Apparently, your card reader is already skipped by the SMART code, so it's a bit weird that it's still slow on your system. Please try to issue the following dump, and let us know how quick it is performed: right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Disk Debug --> HDD SPTI Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. Thanks, Fiery

It's true that on the Sensor page you cannot adjust labels. But on the LCD you can rename all the labels, so I'm not sure what feature do you miss about the LCD setup

Please let us know more about your system configuration. 1) Windows version? 32-bit or 64-bit kernel? 2) SATA controller type? 3) Motherboard model? Thanks, Fiery

Please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Disk Debug --> ATA Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. Also right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Disk Debug --> Physical Drives Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. --- As for the buffer size issue, I'm afraid that's just a common issue about SATA drives with 32MB or bigger DRAM buffer. It's an issue with the ATA IDENTIFY block provided by the HDD firmware, so we cannot fix it from AIDA64. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you for the feedback

1) I normally wouldn't bash another software, but now that you mentioned it ... AFAIK HWMonitor uses a rather twisted, not very scientific method to "measure" the CPU power consumption. It doesn't even work in several cases, e.g. on our Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H motherboard + Sempron 140 system it constantly reports 40.50W for the CPU power, both idle and at full load. 2) DES has a lot more variations than what you listed. There's the old "classic" DES for the oldest boards with DES support, and there's the Easy Energy Saver for AMD processors. Every generation of DES/EES uses a different method to measure the CPU power, and they do depend on BIOS tables. Such BIOS tables may change between BIOS releases. As for stable readings, yes, our old DES method provided solid and stable readings in most of the cases, and users didn't even notice they were off. Sometimes they were off only at full load, sometimes they were off even at idle. Sometimes only by a few watts, other times the values didn't make any sense (like 0.15W at full load, or zero watts). The whole thing is just a big headache, and we invested valuable resources in this whole thing, pretty much in vain. Don't get me wrong, we would be very happy to implement DES/EES support again, but in order to do so, we need proper SDK or programming manual from Gigabyte.

Thank you for the tip. At the first look it still doesn't seem to support ATA passthrough, so we'll need to do a bit more research to find out what's been changed. I'll get back to you in this topic once we have an update on this matter. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you for the feedback. We've done several test runs on our nForce chipset based test systems, but found no such slowdowns. However, I can see in your report that you have an USB card reader connected It may cause the slow-down, so we need to skip scanning that device. In AIDA64, please navigate to the Devices / USB Devices page, and press right-click on "USB Devices" in the left menu, and select Quick Report --> Plain Text. Please copy-paste the section (10 lines) relevant to your card reader into this topic. Thanks, Fiery

If you mean Unwinder, then yes

Apparently this issue is due to the usage of synchronization mutexes across those monitoring software. An initiative started to re-standardize the mutexes, using Global namespace: http://www.techpowerup.com/wiki/doku.php/systool/mutexes_to_avoid_collisions Most monitoring software has already been adjusted accordingly, but Rivatuner, MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision are still behind. We've already contacted the author of those software, and been promised their next release will move to using Global namespace. Until that happens, please try to avoid running those software and AIDA64 simultaneously, if possible. Regards, Fiery

Such weird core temperature readings usually occur when one unlocks disabled cores of an AMD processor, and/or when the ACC feature is activated. Please verify if the core tempeatures are zero in HWMonitor latest version as well.