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    dv6000z lost the ability to measure HDD temps

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vassil_98, Aug 13, 2008.

  1. vassil_98

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    Hi,

    I've had my dv6000z for a year now and it's working perfectly. I downgraded it to XP as soon as i received it last August but some time this year (April I guess) I switched back to Vista Business. Under XP I could measure the HDD temperature with no problem (HW monitor). Under Vista, however, absolutely no program seems to detect this temp. I flashed to the latest BIOS, which just put my fan on non-stop and I didn't really need this since I always undervolt heavily my CPUs.
    I've tried HDD thermometer, HW monitor, HD tach, NHC, RMclock...nothing.
    Any suggestions how I can get back my HDD temp measurement?
     
    vassil_98, Aug 13, 2008
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    Have you installed the chipset drivers?
     
    flipfire, Aug 13, 2008
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    hm...that would've been a very stupid thing to do ...I'll check it shortly; thanks Flipfire
     
    vassil_98, Aug 13, 2008
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    Unfortunatley, chalk this one as being nvidia's fault. The Vista drivers for some reason identify the SATA drives as SCSI devices. So, any monitoring utility cannot read the temps from the HDD since it is recognized as a SCSI device not SATA even though it is actually a SATA device. If you want to see the temps in Vista then you would have to replace a file in one of the drivers with the XP version. There was a thread in the lavalys everest forum desribing this issue and how to fix it.

    EDIT; http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2378
     
    miner, Aug 13, 2008
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    oh, wow. Thanks Miner, I just checked that I have all the necessary drivers and did notice that the hard drive was identified as SCSI...
    thanks again
     
    vassil_98, Aug 13, 2008
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    Hmm, SpeedFan does read the HDD temperature. I guess it takes another approach because it still does not detect the HDD (the above mentioned problem) but it does detect a temperature other than that of the Core and it's definitely not the GPU.
     
    vassil_98, Aug 23, 2008
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    Hmm...don't really remember Speedfan reading anything accurately on the V3000z but I guess the newer versions might have improved. but if the HDD is not being recognised as a SATA device then it wouldn't be able to read SMART data.
     
    miner, Aug 23, 2008
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    Yep, I have a similar situation, since my drive is detected as a "SCSI Device".
     
    R4000, Aug 23, 2008
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    Same thing with my dv6000z
     
    Estlander, Aug 23, 2008
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