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I've recently bought a HP Proliant microserver due to the exceptionally good cash back offer As I'm probably going to use it for network storage I thought I would give Aida a whizz on it Heres what I've found so far When I first install windows XP on the machine it doesnt recognise the SMBUS and installs no driver Aida shows the hard drive sensor information When I install the latest(and seemingly ONLY) official AMD drivers for the SMBus Aida becomes unable to see the hard drive temperatures If on the otherhand I install Windows 7 which finds drivers for all the built in hardware Aida can still see the hard drive temperatures with the win7 SMBus driver installed At face value that seems like the SMBus driver for XP is "flaky", but I was under the impression that Aida read the hardware information and sensor drivers directly rather than by querying system drivers. So I would have thought it should have picked up the hard drive info whether a driver for the SMBus was installed or not or am I mistaken in that assumption? Other than the hard drive temperature it seems to pick everything else up flawlessly which just makes it seem even stranger Signed Perplexifuddled from the UK