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    Well, this seems peculiar... (regarding temp. monitoring)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Euphamism, Sep 9, 2008.

  1. Euphamism

    Euphamism Notebook Enthusiast

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    Long story short: According to the documentation inside System Information, my HDD is S.M.A.R.T. enabled. Yet HWMonitor nor any other program I've tried (Notebook Hardware something *forgot last word in the name* and SpeedFan) register a temperature for it. Likewise, HWMonitor is supposed to support ATI GPUs, but mine is not registering as even existing and the Catalyst Control Center returns data consistently that it's zero degrees. Obviously, there's no way with the computer running either component is going to be zero degrees, let alone taking into consideration that the room I'm in is 73F so I'd have to have the computer sitting on a block of ice for the temp to be so low.

    Am I missing something here? Is there any hope for getting temperature readings on these components? And is there some way to determine if HP even properly hooked up the temperature monitoring... chipset? (Forgive me, I'm hardware-stupid at times.) Keep in mind, I don't plan to open the computer as I still have 11 months left of warranty. So if there's a software-based way to find out what's wrong, that would be ideal.
     
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    SMART enables the monitoring of the integrety a HDD not its temperature.
     
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    Could have sworn I'd read somewhere that HWMonitor accessed data through SMART. Hmm... Either way, I still can't figure out why my computer would ship with a program that monitors the GPU temperature and displays it in the taskbar (Catalyst Control Center) when the GPU doesn't actually feed it any temperature information. So is there any way to sort -that- out? I'm starting to doubt it, unfortunately.
     
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Which HDD is it ? Either the (D)TS is screwed up or absent.
     
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    It's listed in System Information as: Fujitsu MHZ2160BH G2 ATA Device
     
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    NHC does not tell you hard drive temp? Also are confusing SMART and ACPI?
     
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    Well, it 'tells' me the temp, in that it says my HDD is 0 degrees. Same with Catalyst Control Center claiming my graphics card is 0 degrees.

    I'm not quite sure as to where you're suggesting I might be mixing up SMART and ACPI, though. I have an ACPI thermal zone listed in HWMonitor. And in System Information, I have a SMART status for my HDD (it says the SMART status is 'Good'). Though it's possible I misread something and got the impression of SMART monitoring temperature when it was referring to an ACPI zone or something of that sort.
     
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