Kazeko

As the story goes...

There's another thread, about two or three down the list that asked about temp monitoring programs.

Well, of the few Chaosminion posted, SpeedFan and Everest are the only two I can get working on Vista 64.

SpeedFan shows me individual core temps in the Teens and 20's (which, I know, is wrong, much as I'd like to think the Thermaltake V1 is THAT good, it's not, plus... Everest shows differently.)

Everest is nice, but $34.99 for a job that freeware can do isn't.

Core Temp gives me a looping driver load error (that fills my screen with error messages until I kill the process.) MBM5 does the same thing.

The Intel Temperature Analysis Tool starts and dies immediately, no error, just a window flash then dead.

Tried running as administrator and all that... Am I just missing something? (Aside from natural Vista compatibility issues?)

(Started a new thread rather than derailing the "Show off your Rig" thread)

Edit: Went through the checklist. Everythings current and up-to-date. The readme files are pretty vague, and Core Temp says it's fine and dandy with Vista.... but doesn't work

Necrosis

I've been using Hmonitor, and I used it on Xp64. If you have the signed driver feature turned off it'll work fine. Even does core temps too.

Hardware sensors monitor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/2000/2003/Vista

Forums-->FAQ-->Vista x64 RTM: Cannot start hmonitor device driver

1 Minor, and 1 Major item.

Minor - it's not free
Major - you have to get it re-authorized every time a new version comes out. Also it's locks to certain hardware configurations.

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Kazeko

Apparently, the fix for it, doesn't work anymore if you've installed many of the MS updates. Huzzah...

(Those that care. CMD line as Admin, "bcdedit -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS" without the quotes. Clearing the entry - "bcdedit -deletevalue loadoptions")



Well. @ 3am on a Wednesday, I've discovered my first beef with Vista. Every driver must be signed in order to even load on Vista.


[i]Edit: So, MBM5 won't work, SpeedFan is about 10-15C out of accuracy, Core Temp won't work, ITAT won't work, and that leaves Everest as the only option.

ChaosMinionX

You can tweak speedfan... it needs an offset of +15... so goto Configure/Advanced/ then in the dropdown you need INTEL something, should be at the bottom then you will see 2-4 values (depending on dual or quadcore) set an offset of +15 and hit remember for as many that are available.

There is also a Vista x64 fix for coretemp.

http://downloads.erodov.com/c/o/r/co...4-VistaX64.zip

Extract it into your desired directory, then make sure you use coretemp-startup.bat first, then run the program and you will not need to disable the x64 driver signing.

You may do both tweaks will work, speedfan natively supports x64... just need to configure the temp offset.

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Kazeko

Chaos.

The only phrases that come to mind are... "Lessthanthree" and Thank you Sir.

Coretemp works just fine with the provided link. Much appreciated!

Would rather avoid speedfan, as I wasn't too impressed with it.

ChaosMinionX

Haha....damn 1337 speak, I cant believe I read the lessthanthree as it was supposed to be read lol.. too much internet for me.

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Kazeko

It's kind of funny. I typically don't use that kind of terminology.