0110.bot Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Hello! Thanks for your time one way or another. I have a lovely little sensorpanel I've put together that fits my needs perfectly, except every single time I reboot my computer the NIC I monitor has decided that if it was NIC3, it is now NIC4, or perhaps if it was NIC4 maybe being NIC3 this time would be fun. Operationally this means that in order to monitor my web traffic with AIDA64, every single time I start my computer I have to go into the SensorPanel manager, change my Upload text line from one to the other, which of course means I need to change its Label, and the value used. I have to do this with my Download text line as well, change the default name from "NIC4 Download Rate" to just "DL" and then change the value from its default KB/s (When are you at, AIDA?) to Mbps. If you think this is annoyingly long to read, imagine how I feel having to do it sometimes multiple times a day depending on how restarty I'm feeling. I have two graphs that I have to adjust too, but since they don't change their label and value when I select a different sensor, they aren't nearly as annoying as all the clicking and typing for the other two. Anyway, I hope this first paragraph conveys some of the PITA I am having myself. I digress... I do not have Hotspot functionality enabled on this desktop, and for good reason. I cannot fathom a situation where I would need to set my desktop as a Wi-Fi hotspot, it is 15 feet from the Wi-Fi router. I'm sure these two Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapters I have are great for laptops, but I don't need em. And...I have them disabled. In my Device Manager, even after hopping into a cmd.exe and giving it the ol' show_nonpresent_devices=1 these two mystery NICs do not show up at all. Yet, in AIDA64, I have 5 NIC sensors to contend with (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LAN), and I believe that these two extra Wi-Fi DVA ones are sort of shuffling around and causing my normal 2.5GbE controller to shift around between sensor designation. I want them gone. How do I make them go away? How can I lock a sensor to a specific NIC#? Should I just save two different layouts and import version 3 or 4 depending on what the program decides the NIC is this time (this idea just came to me while writing this and might be my less-than-desirable solution.)? I appreciate your help and knowledge, whoever you are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbolt00 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 I've just ran into the same issue, I would like to just pick the NIC by name instead of order, or some other identifier that stays the same. I believe you can get rid of the Wifi Direct adapters by disabling the wifi adapter entirely if you're not using it, though I have another issue myself now, using a virtual machine, or the Android subsystem creates a virtual network adapter which also knocks everything out of order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeakLaugh Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 (edited) Same issue(s) - NIC#: I have 8 showing up in AIDA64 and 14 in Device Manager (Win)... the one that corresponds to my ethernet adapter (Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE RTL8125BG) is currently on NIC5 and once upon a time it was NIC6 - which made sense because the adapter is on PCI bus 6, but now.... It's silly that I have to go through the list and try each one until I find the one that shows activity that corresponds to what I see in Task Manager. This brings me to... -Values: they make no sense. If it is in fact KB/s (why?), then they're not matching at all with Task Manager. They seem to be roughly halved, e.g when the Task Manager graph peaks just over 32Mbps, the SensorPanel graph shows a spike around 1600(Kbps?) - Units: partly becuase the values were wrong, I wasn't even sure what the units were - in the "modify" window for graphs it doesn't tell you - you have to pretend its a simple sensor item to look that up... and then (as with everywhere else in AIDA) it isn't possible to scale the values to MB or GB (or MHz/GHz). I really can't understand why there's an option to change the Values' unit labels if the data is always the same. Sure sometimes my GPU clocks 210 MHz, but I'd rather see that as 0.21 Ghz. More on this below, at "C" My suggestions are: A.) add the same tab structure that already exists for Sensor Items to Graphs, to make the UI/UX more consistent, B.) Put proper scaling and unit control options in the "Values/Units" tab. It just isn't enough to be able to make the label say something is measured in "poops/min", I need to be able to do math on the input value to make the graph/chart/sensor item read out the way I want. I would suggest checkboxes for x10, x100, x1000, xCustom (with an input field that takes floats) so that they can be scaled as needed. C.) We also need a precision control, because another issue related to that scaling is that when my GPU is doing 2.235 GHz, I don't care if it's 2.2347 - rather it's more important that the readout doesn't overflow the space in the Sensor Panel that I've allocated. I want to be able to set the number of characters (because the insertion point of all items is only ever top left, so I can't align things to the right side of the display if they're going to grow or shrink the x dimension to fit however many numbers it wants to show). Edited October 30 by WeakLaugh typos, structure, readability Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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