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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
On 03/05/2018 5:24 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
CORSAIR LINK STINKS. (Details below.) In message , VanguardLH writes: Rene Lamontagne wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Do they provide simple skins to present the information?Â* Else, by comparison, Speedfan is elegant because it is simple. If you cared to look they provide plain dark or light skins. Look WHERE?Â* I did care to look.Â* In fact, I gave the URL to their product page that you did not so I had to guess that is the tool to which you referred.Â* I see no skins.Â* They present no skins.Â* Visit the URL that I gave.Â* Where do YOU see any skins presented? Yes you seem to have an old page, I should have included the proper one. You need the version 4.9.5.25 which is the one I have, it is the latest one on this page. http://www.corsair.com/en-us/downloads Select category, Corsair Link, than 4.9.5.25 Then you will find all the settings etc Ah, so Corsair won't show be the proper (latest version) screenshots. Instead I would have to *install* the program before I can see what it looks like.Â* Thanks for the info but no thanks.Â* I don't install software just to see what it might look like.Â* I do that ahead of time as part of researching the software.Â* Corsair really needs to update the product page to show screenshots for their latest version. I did a Google Images search on "corsair link" and found some users had posted screenshots showing a different skin than the one Corsair shows on their site, like: http://i.imgur.com/T8DNKnW.png So they have a less busy page.Â* Hopefully the user can turn off the blaring white-on-bright-red section titles but it's better than the background showing the inside of a computer case. I agree, that UI with the computer case isn't to my liking either. I've already posted some of this once, but it seems to have got lost, so here goes again. I installed that 4.9.5.25 (the latest on the page), but when run, I just got a title bar which disappeared. So I uninstalled it with prejudice, and tried the oldest on the page (4.7.0.77). That installed, but when run, it told me there was a later one, did I want it (it obviously 'phoned home to ask, without asking permission); I said yes, and it got it and ran. Since then, my machine has been running hot. At one point I fired up SpeedFan (in monitoring mode only!), and it was over 100 (C)! I've quickly plugged in the old USB fan tray I'd been using with my XP machine, and things are more manageable now (below 60C). I have in the meantime run Toshiba's own test of the cooling system (takes about 23 minutes), and that said all is well (I heard it run the fan up and down). Since overheating was what killed my XP machine, _and_ the fan on this one used to cut in quite audibly for even a slight rise, I'm decidedly unimpressed with Corsair Link: it seems to me that it has set/changed some control, even though I only intended to use it as a monitor; any suggestions to fix what it broke welcomed. I'm certainly going to uninstall it again: the only reason I haven't is in case it needs to be there to do any fix. I thought I'd give it one more chance, so clicked on the start menu shortcut it installed. It now comes up with (ding) a window saying "Problem with Shortcut\The parameter is incorrect." So I look at the properties of the shortcut: it's one of those with the Target box greyed out and blanked - the sort of thing Microsoft do for Internet Explorer and some Office things. Fortunately it has something in the "Start in:" box ("C:\Program Files\CorsairLink4\"), so I look there. The .exe - which is 26,479 KB! - just for a fan monitor?!? - is indeed 4.9.5.25. When I try to run it directly, it's back to being the title-bar-only-and-that-briefly behaviour, although it does add a bar to the taskbar and an icon to the tray. Left or right clicking on the tray icon makes nothing happen. I can kill (close) it by right-clicking the taskbar bar. (There was one task in Task bar, which disappeared.) So - Corsair Link: o installs "funny" shortcuts. o is huge. o won't run for me more than once (as far as me actually seeing the UI, that is; _something_ runs when I run it). o has a pretty horrible UI. (_Might_ be possible to change to a plain one as described in this thread _if_ the UI would actually come up!) o _seems_ to have done something to my fan control. (The one time I did actually see the UI, there seemed to be three modes, one of which _had_ to be chosen - I think one of them was called something like "performance". There did _not_ seem to be a "monitor only" option.) Thoughts? I do have a full image from only the other day, as it happens, but I'd rather not go to that if I don't have to. (I may also have System Restore points.) Sorry to hear of all your troubles, I would also uninstall it if it gave me such a hard time. I am running an i7950 CPU system and an Asus X58 Sbertooth MB. I left mine running in the performance mode to be sure it used all fans and everything is good, So I ran it in balanced and quite mode and all fans and temps stayed the same. Is yours in Performance mode? Quite mode may slow down or stop fans, But mine did not I have one bogus temp on mine always shows 64 deg C both in Corsair and Speedfan, some kind of sensor not present thing. Can't think of anything else to try except uninstall if its not compatible wit your system. Rene |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes: On 03/05/2018 5:24 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: CORSAIR LINK STINKS. (Details below.) [] Sorry to hear of all your troubles, I would also uninstall it if it gave me such a hard time. I am running an i7950 CPU system and an Asus X58 Sbertooth MB. I left mine running in the performance mode to be sure it used all fans and everything is good, So I ran it in balanced and quite mode and all fans and temps stayed the same. Is yours in Performance mode? Those were indeed the three modes - balanced, quiet, and performance. I chose performance as I thought that was likely to do the best cooling; my point was that there didn't seem to be a way to tell it to revert to whatever had been in place before I installed/ran it. And just stopping it, or even uninstalling it, seemed not to revert things. I couldn't tell you what mode it was in now, as I couldn't get it to open up the UI. Quite mode may slow down or stop fans, But mine did not [] Can't think of anything else to try except uninstall if its not compatible wit your system. Rene Well, I tried uninstalling, without success. However, I have now done a system restore to just before I installed it the first time, and things seem - touch wood! - to be good: the cores are below 50C, and I've heard the fan occasionally. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf You can't abdicate and eat it - attributed to Wallis Simpson, in Radio Times 14-20 January 2012. |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
On 03/05/2018 8:15 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Rene Lamontagne writes: On 03/05/2018 5:24 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: CORSAIR LINK STINKS. (Details below.) [] Sorry to hear of all your troubles, I would also uninstall it if it gave me such a hard time. I am running an i7950 CPU system and an Asus X58 Sbertooth MB. I left mine running in the performance mode to be sure it used all fans and everything is good, So I ran it in balanced and quite mode and all fans and temps stayed the same. Is yours in Performance mode? Those were indeed the three modes - balanced, quiet, and performance. I chose performance as I thought that was likely to do the best cooling; my point was that there didn't seem to be a way to tell it to revert to whatever had been in place before I installed/ran it. And just stopping it, or even uninstalling it, seemed not to revert things. I couldn't tell you what mode it was in now, as I couldn't get it to open up the UI. Quite mode may slow down or stop fans, But mine did not [] Can't think of anything else to try except uninstall if its not compatible wit your system. Rene Well, I tried uninstalling, without success. However, I have now done a system restore to just before I installed it the first time, and things seem - touch wood! - to be good: the cores are below 50C, and I've heard the fan occasionally. In that case I would just forget it and carry on as you were, Mine seems OK so I will leave it in, If it gives me any trouble I will toss it. Rene |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Thoughts? I do have a full image from only the other day, as it happens, but I'd rather not go to that if I don't have to. (I may also have System Restore points.) One attribute I've seen of some software fan controllers is they can only manage 4-pin fans; i.e., those that are PWM (pulse-width modulated - ground, +12V, RPM sense, speed control). Speedfan, on the other hand, can change the duty cycle of the voltage to the fan which emulates PWM. Instead of regulating the speed control of the fan, it regulates the average voltage to the fan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comput...ontrol#PWM-FAN Check inside to see if your CPU and case fans are 3- or 4-pin. The PC that I salvaged had a defective mobo in that the PWM control for the CPU fan didn't work. The BIOS fan control couldn't regulate the CPU fan but I could use Speedfan to duty-cycle voltage regulate the CPU fan. If it weren't for Speedfan, I'd have been stuck with a very noisy PC. Because the fan is not getting constant voltage and using the control line to change RPM, you could lower the average voltage too low (or make the off cycle too long). The result is burning out the fan or it won't start spinning. While I could get Speedfan to lower the CPU fan down to 30% duty cycle (30% on, 70% off) with the fan reliably spinning up and down to regulate its RPM, I set it to 50%. I could barely detect the increase in noise from 30% to 50% but I felt better having the fan experience a higher average voltage. To get Speedfan to *not* use hardware PWM control for the CPU fan, I had to set an override. Under the Advanced tab, I selected the "IT8720F at $A0 on ISA". As I recall, I had to change PWM1 Mode and PWM2 mode from On/Off (using hardware PWM) to "software controlled"; i.e., Speedfan would regulate the fan's duty cycle instead of using the PWM control to tell the fan to change RPM. I can't be sure that's how I got Speedfan to use duty cycling instead PWM control on the CPU fan because it's been 6 years since I salvaged the circa 2009 Acer PC. I had planned on using the BIOS temperature controls but they wouldn't work (since they assumed they would regulate RPM using PWM). I tried to look at Corsair's knowledgebase to see if their Link tool worked with both 3- and 4-pin fans or only with 4-pin fans. They wanted me to login to an account. Not going to happen. Their FAQs didn't have anything about their Link software regarding what type of fans their software can control. From past articles for Speedfan, speed control can also be screwed up if the wrong table is used for the fan controller. Could be the table that Speedfan used is wrong. Could be the table burned into the firmware for the controller is wrong. After uninstalling Corsair's Link (and doing all the remnant file and registry cleanup) and rebooting, were the fan speeds still uncontrolled? Was Speedfan still installed and it couldn't control the fans anymore? I'd make sure everything of Link got removed, uninstall Speedfan (and do the remnant cleanup), and reinstall Speedfan to see if it regained fan speed control. |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes: On 03/05/2018 8:15 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Rene Lamontagne writes: On 03/05/2018 5:24 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: CORSAIR LINK STINKS. (Details below.) [] Well, I tried uninstalling, without success. However, I have now done a system restore to just before I installed it the first time, and things seem - touch wood! - to be good: the cores are below 50C, and I've heard the fan occasionally. In that case I would just forget it and carry on as you were, Mine That's what I'm doing. I really only installed it because someone here said it had a nice interface for monitoring, I didn't want any of its controlling aspects. (I didn't like the default one - with pictures of computer cases - but apparently there are plain ones, but I couldn't get it to give me the UI enough times to play.) seems OK so I will leave it in, If it gives me any trouble I will toss it. Rene I'm glad it works for you! (Though I still think it's far too big for what it does.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "I am entitled to my own opinion." "Yes, but it's your constant assumption that everyone else is also that's so annoying." - Vila & Avon |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
In message , VanguardLH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: Thoughts? I do have a full image from only the other day, as it happens, but I'd rather not go to that if I don't have to. (I may also have System Restore points.) One attribute I've seen of some software fan controllers is they can only manage 4-pin fans; i.e., those that are PWM (pulse-width modulated - ground, +12V, RPM sense, speed control). Speedfan, on the other hand, can change the duty cycle of the voltage to the fan which emulates PWM. Instead of regulating the speed control of the fan, it regulates the average voltage to the fan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comput...ontrol#PWM-FAN Check inside to see if your CPU and case fans are 3- or 4-pin. This is a laptop, with I think only the one fan. I'm not at the stage where I want to open this one up completely yet; the XP machine I used to have was I think only a three-wire fan. The PC that I salvaged had a defective mobo in that the PWM control for the CPU fan didn't work. The BIOS fan control couldn't regulate the CPU fan but I could use Speedfan to duty-cycle voltage regulate the CPU fan. If it weren't for Speedfan, I'd have been stuck with a very noisy PC. (And one which wouldn't have lasted as long, probably.) Useful to know SpeedFan can rescue equipment in that way. Because the fan is not getting constant voltage and using the control line to change RPM, you could lower the average voltage too low (or make the off cycle too long). The result is burning out the fan or it won't start spinning. While I could get Speedfan to lower the CPU fan down to 30% duty cycle (30% on, 70% off) with the fan reliably spinning up and down to regulate its RPM, I set it to 50%. I could barely detect the increase in noise from 30% to 50% but I felt better having the fan experience a higher average voltage. Yes, stalling them's not a good idea. [] After uninstalling Corsair's Link (and doing all the remnant file and registry cleanup) and rebooting, were the fan speeds still uncontrolled? Was Speedfan still installed and it couldn't control the fans anymore? I'd make sure everything of Link got removed, uninstall Speedfan (and do the remnant cleanup), and reinstall Speedfan to see if it regained fan speed control. I've gone back using a system restore, and things _seem_ to be OK. I feel inclined to leave what's working alone now! I don't know if the built-in control is entirely hardware, or uses _some_ softwa it certainly seems to crank up the fan if the processor load (as shown by task manager) gets much off the bottom, but that _could_ be a hardware system responding quickly; I know processors do heat up quickly. All the time, I've had SpeedFan (4.52) installed purely as a monitor: and, it doesn't even seem to be able to monitor fan speed, only four temperatures (called HD0, Temp1, Core 0, and Core 1), as well as four bars for the CPU Usage. Here's what it says in its little window: Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:NO SpeedFan:YES I/O properly initialized Linked ISA BUS at $0290 Scanning ISA BUS at $0290... Found TOSHIBA fan driver Found HGST HTS541010B7E610 (1000.2GB) Found ACPI temperature Found Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz End of detection Loaded 4 events I'm assuming the HD is monitored via SMART. Under the Info tab, it says No known chipset detected; under Charts, it gives me the four choices under temperatures, and nothing under fan speeds or voltages. Under Configure, it confirms (?) that HD0 is via SMART, the other three being via ISA. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "I am entitled to my own opinion." "Yes, but it's your constant assumption that everyone else is also that's so annoying." - Vila & Avon |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I've gone back using a system restore, and things _seem_ to be OK. I feel inclined to leave what's working alone now! I don't know if the built-in control is entirely hardware, or uses _some_ softwa it certainly seems to crank up the fan if the processor load (as shown by task manager) gets much off the bottom, but that _could_ be a hardware system responding quickly; I know processors do heat up quickly. All the time, I've had SpeedFan (4.52) installed purely as a monitor: and, it doesn't even seem to be able to monitor fan speed, only four temperatures (called HD0, Temp1, Core 0, and Core 1), as well as four bars for the CPU Usage. Here's what it says in its little window: Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:NO SpeedFan:YES I/O properly initialized Linked ISA BUS at $0290 Scanning ISA BUS at $0290... Found TOSHIBA fan driver Found HGST HTS541010B7E610 (1000.2GB) Found ACPI temperature Found Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz End of detection Loaded 4 events I'm assuming the HD is monitored via SMART. Under the Info tab, it says No known chipset detected; under Charts, it gives me the four choices under temperatures, and nothing under fan speeds or voltages. Under Configure, it confirms (?) that HD0 is via SMART, the other three being via ISA. SMART attribute 194 reports temperature, so that's how Speedfan gets it from the HDD/SDD. The fans must report their speed using SMBus. Well, Speedfan queries the devices that will report on the SMBus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Bus On the Info tab, there is a "Find SMBus devices" button. Does it find anything? I suspect the laptop came with bundled software. I remember having to spend days researching what all the software was for that was getting loaded in Windows startup on a Dell PC. I could get rid of a lot of the fluff but some were essential. Could be Toshiba is using their own software to control fan speed and that interferes with Speedfan querying the devices. Only one fan control program should be managing the fan speeds. Speedfan would report what it found on the SMBus but not in your case. There is no mention of "Scanning SMBus at address" or of it finding a controller (for the fan). Mobile processors are made to be low-power (reduced heat) but need extra cooling when there is any load on them. All the laptops that I've used have cycled through low and high fan speeds repetively while I used them. Different fan speed controllers have different hysteresis: the rate at which they will change fan speed based on the rate of temperature change. Speedfan might not be a good choice for a mobile processor. Fan speed has to change quickly and Speedfan might think it has more time (with a larger heatsink for a desktop) to change fan speed. I didn't find a hysteresis setting in Speedfan but then I don't know if that's part of the info table in the controller that Speedfan will read. When I go under Speedfan's Advanced tab and select the controller chip for the fans, none of the attributes is for hysteresis. As I mentioned for my salvaged mobo, I had to change Speedfan's default configuration to "software controlled" for the controller chip. Maybe you have to do that, too. If that works, make sure to enable the "remember it" setting; else, when Speedfan next loads, it will use the default because the setting doesn't stick unless you say so. For me, "software controlled" was an available selection and worked. For others, like http://tinyurl.com/ydatp8oa, they may have to deselect one of the other control methods. In Speedfan under its Fan Control tab, did you enable Advanced mode (where you can name a profile, select a fan, and then determine its speed curve)? http://tinyurl.com/ybwpo3j5 is someone else's example. I don't bother with this level of control. If you are using advanced mode, could be there's nothing defined for the speed gradients or they're wrong from what you expect or want. |
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TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans
In message , VanguardLH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I've gone back using a system restore, and things _seem_ to be OK. I [] Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:NO SpeedFan:YES I/O properly initialized Linked ISA BUS at $0290 Scanning ISA BUS at $0290... Found TOSHIBA fan driver Found HGST HTS541010B7E610 (1000.2GB) Found ACPI temperature Found Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz End of detection Loaded 4 events I'm assuming the HD is monitored via SMART. Under the Info tab, it says No known chipset detected; under Charts, it gives me the four choices under temperatures, and nothing under fan speeds or voltages. Under Configure, it confirms (?) that HD0 is via SMART, the other three being via ISA. SMART attribute 194 reports temperature, so that's how Speedfan gets it from the HDD/SDD. That's what I assume too (although it does say it "Found" it when it was scanning the ISA bus, see above). [] On the Info tab, there is a "Find SMBus devices" button. Does it find anything? I suspect the laptop came with bundled software. I remember Well it says "Close all running programs.", which I haven't: I don't know if it has a way of telling whether I have. When I click or otherwise activate the "Start scanning" button, it presses and the dotted line around it goes, but nothing happens - nothing appears in the window, and the button is still called "Start scanning". I assume it scanned and didn't find anything. [] lot of the fluff but some were essential. Could be Toshiba is using their own software to control fan speed and that interferes with Sounds likely - or, the control is entirely in hardware. (It does seem to go in steps though, which suggests software.) Speedfan querying the devices. Only one fan control program should be managing the fan speeds. Speedfan would report what it found on the SMBus but not in your case. There is no mention of "Scanning SMBus at address" or of it finding a controller (for the fan). Indeed. Mobile processors are made to be low-power (reduced heat) but need extra cooling when there is any load on them. All the laptops that I've used have cycled through low and high fan speeds repetively while I used them. Different fan speed controllers have different hysteresis: the rate at which they will change fan speed based on the rate of temperature change. Speedfan might not be a good choice for a mobile [] In Speedfan under its Fan Control tab, did you enable Advanced mode (where you can name a profile, select a fan, and then determine its speed curve)? http://tinyurl.com/ybwpo3j5 is someone else's example. I don't bother with this level of control. If you are using advanced mode, could be there's nothing defined for the speed gradients or they're wrong from what you expect or want. If I tick the Advanced box in that tab, a blank window comes up, with Add and Remove tabs; if I click Add, it prompts for a name. If I type test, it adds it to the empty box, but nothing else appears - no controllers or anything. I Cancelled my way out of there. The system seems to be working - all three are in the high fifties, and the fan seems to be coming on and going off as required, which I don't _think_ it was when Corsair Link had anything to do with it. I'm not going to mess with it! (Well, other than keeping SpeedFan _purely as a monitor_.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. -Cato the Elder, statesman, soldier, and writer (234-149 BCE) |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
VanguardLH WROTE: On the Info tab, there is a "Find SMBus devices" button. Does it find anything? I suspect the laptop came with bundled software. I remember When I click or otherwise activate the "Start scanning" button, it presses and the dotted line around it goes, but nothing happens - nothing appears in the window, and the button is still called "Start scanning". I assume it scanned and didn't find anything. The scan is very quick. Looks like Speedfan cannot find anything that responds on the SMBus (assuming your laptop has that bus). There must be an SM Bus Controller or System Management Controller chipset on the mobo to support SMBus. The device must install an SMBus driver so it can be queried on state of the device and to ask it to retrieve info from the device. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us...-software.html https://communities.intel.com/thread/110358 The chipset driver package from the mobo maker (or laptop maker, in your case) must include an SMBus driver to perform the management. That is, you need to install the chipset driver package (suite of drivers) so Windows knows how to communicate with THAT hardware. When you go into Device Manager (devmgmt.msc), do you see an SMBus Controller device? As I recall, UMBus (User-Mode Bus enumerator) replaced SMBus as of Windows Vista. It enumerates the devices found (that report themselves) on the user-mode busses. https://www.file.net/process/umbus.sys.html Umbus.sys is a Windows driver. A driver is a small software program that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or connected devices. This means that a driver has direct access to the internals of the operating system, hardware etc. On my Windows 7 x64 setup, no "SMBus Controller" is listed but there are a "UMBus Root Bus Enumerator" and two "UMBus Enumerator". If I tick the Advanced box in that tab, a blank window comes up, with Add and Remove tabs; if I click Add, it prompts for a name. If I type test, it adds it to the empty box, but nothing else appears - no controllers or anything. After adding the "test" profile, did you click on that profile to select it? Only when it is selected will the relevant fields show up below, like Controller Speed (if you want to pick a method), Method, and Temperatures (where you define setpoints for temperatures and fan speed at those temperatures). Since Speedfan found no fan devices on the SMBus/UMbus (assuming there are any and that mobo's chipset drivers have the SMbus/UMbus drivers) then it's not much of a surprise that this section remained blank. Your hardware and driver setup isn't reporting anything for Speedfan to find. |
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In message , VanguardLH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: VanguardLH WROTE: On the Info tab, there is a "Find SMBus devices" button. Does it find anything? I suspect the laptop came with bundled software. I remember When I click or otherwise activate the "Start scanning" button, it presses and the dotted line around it goes, but nothing happens - nothing appears in the window, and the button is still called "Start scanning". I assume it scanned and didn't find anything. The scan is very quick. Looks like Speedfan cannot find anything that responds on the SMBus (assuming your laptop has that bus). There must be an SM Bus Controller or System Management Controller chipset on the [] Windows knows how to communicate with THAT hardware. When you go into Device Manager (devmgmt.msc), do you see an SMBus Controller device? As I recall, UMBus (User-Mode Bus enumerator) replaced SMBus as of Windows Vista. It enumerates the devices found (that report themselves) on the user-mode busses. [] On my Windows 7 x64 setup, no "SMBus Controller" is listed but there are a "UMBus Root Bus Enumerator" and two "UMBus Enumerator". The bottom of my Device Manager goes: Processors, Security Devices, Sound, video and game controllers, System devices, Universal Serial Bus controllers. No sign of SMB or UMB. If I tick the Advanced box in that tab, a blank window comes up, with [In SpeedFan] Add and Remove tabs; if I click Add, it prompts for a name. If I type test, it adds it to the empty box, but nothing else appears - no controllers or anything. After adding the "test" profile, did you click on that profile to select I hadn't. it? Only when it is selected will the relevant fields show up below, like Controller Speed (if you want to pick a method), Method, and Temperatures (where you define setpoints for temperatures and fan speed at those temperatures). It comes up with: a "Controlled speed" tickbox; a dropdown that only has "Pwm1 - Pwm1 from Toshiba @ $0000 on ISA; a "Method" dropdown containing the choice of SUM of speeds and MAX of speeds; and a blank box labelled Temperatures, with Add and Remove buttons below. Clicking on Add brings up the list of four temp. sensors. Adding one of those then clicking on it, brings up a graph, with adjustable bottom and top limits, and a hysteresis up/down one. Looks like I _could_ set _something_ up if I wanted. Since Speedfan found no fan devices on the SMBus/UMbus (assuming there are any and that mobo's chipset drivers have the SMbus/UMbus drivers) then it's not much of a surprise that this section remained blank. Your hardware and driver setup isn't reporting anything for Speedfan to find. I'll leave it be! But thanks for the tips; I'll know in future about SpeedFan. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Where [other presenters] tackle the world with a box of watercolours, he takes a spanner. - David Butcher (on Guy Martin), RT 2015/1/31-2/6 |
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