CPUID HWMonitor

http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

is the software safe?

will it modified my system in anyway?
i DON'T want any renaming, configure fan speed, overclocking, change voltage, etc.
i just want a monitor program that enable me to read the system, not modify it.

support XP, Vista?

 

Supports XP and Vista.
It's safe, it will not modify anything on your system, only observe it.
It's the software I recommend in fact.
It will create an .ini file wherever you run it, which is safe to delete when you close the program. That is the only change it makes.

 

Yes it's safe. Standalone hardware monitor, no installation, just great

 

Its a great bit of software, no installation which is quite nice, shows the min/max temps which I find extremely usefull, I highly recommend it.

The .ini file that is created, is that the hwmonitorw file in the hwmonitor folder?

 

Yes, or in whatever folder you have the .exe in. I've never cared to open it up and see what's inside, but I suspect it might store temperature info (max/min) or maybe settings.

 

Cheers Hep, I've wondered what that file was and just opened it this is all that was inside.

[HWMonitor]
VERSION=1.1.3.0
USE_ACPI=1
USE_SMBUS=1
USE_SMART=1
USE_DISPLAY=1
CPU_0_TJMAX=100.0

 

I used it for over 3 years now. Totally safe and by my accounts, pretty acurate.

 

One can say that, those are more or less like the display settings. Whatever thing you'll edit to 0, that will not show up in the HWMonitor window. Like USE_ACPI=0, and you won't see ACPI temps.

Basically, the software detects everything the first time its run, and stores the settings in an ini file. You only need to edit stuff in it, if HWMonitor is troubling you (for troubleshooting). Though you can change the Tj(max), if you know the correct one for your Intel processor.

 

Yeah, great piece of software for monitoring your temps, especially if you are a gamer

On the topic of HWMonitor, can one of you enlighten me and tell me what is meant by the TZS01/2, which hardware is this the temp of

Thanks

 

Yep it's safe and the best thing I like about it, you don't have to run a setup to run it.

 

yeah, it's completely safe, and as mag said, no setup!!

fattail95

 

It's just blank whenever I run it for some reason. I get absolutely no information to show. What gives?

 

Delete the .ini file (probably called hwmonitor.ini) and see if that fixes the problem.

 

yup perfectly safe i love it

 

TZS01/02 are the Thermal Zones Senors, which are near the parts that need active cooling (in a notebook, that would be CPU and GPU). The Fan Algorithm is based upon one of the sensors. Which one? Usually there is a CPU-GPU Fan Table in the Service Manual which has info regarding this. Some notebooks have a single sensor THRM which controls the Fan RPM, but I guess thats mostly in notebooks with an IGP.

 

I'll give it a shot.

 

Cheers mate, good to know

So these are giving the temps of the CPU and GPU overall, not individual parts like each core, or GPU memory, and they control fan speeds???

Thanks (I don't really get the whole thermal zonr)

 

Its Thermal Zone Sensor.

The sensor gives a temp of a particular zone (like an area around the CPU or GPU). The fan rpm increases and decreases as per the temperatures recorded by these sensors.

The core temperature is usually recorded by the DTS in CPUs, dunno about GPUs. The DTS has nothing to do with fan control, but throttles down the CPU when near the Tj(max) and shuts the system down when Tj(max) is exceeded.

 

Can HWMonitor create a log file and record the temperature over time as you use the computer?

 

Yes, HWMonitor Pro has a graph generator for data logging.
I only use HWMonitor, and one can only create a txt dump in the free version.

 

LOL
I figured that part out

This is what I wanted to know, thanks a lot

 

Hep, still a no go as far as getting it to show me anything. It's just a blank screen when I run it.

 

This happened to me once when I started the program as soon as my pc booted
I thought that maybe the sensors hadn't kicked in or simething

tried it again after a little while and it was working fine

Wonder why it happens???

 

What's the contents of your hwmonitor.ini?

 

I hear you. Sadly, it doesn't work no matter how many times I try it? I've tried it right after booting up, later on after everything gets going, right before booting up, etc., but nothing ever shows.

Here are the contents of the .ini, Hep:


[HWMonitor]
VERSION=1.1.3.0
USE_ACPI=1
USE_SMBUS=1
USE_SMART=1
USE_DISPLAY=1


EDIT: Okay, I logged into XP x86 and it worked perfectly. I have no idea why it isn't working when I'm logged into Vista.