Re: Kamikaze CPU fan - ONLY in XP and if no 3rd party tools are installed!
- From: "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 06:32:20 -0500
<tstaddon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1186434093.653779.31700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
Just to cover the points:
Bob: You are right, but playing devil's advocate here... Microsoft
were pushing for ACPI to become the de-facto standard for new
motherboards, a long time ago. They have a standard interface for
accessing the motherboard sensors.
For that reason, IMO it's a very surprising omission for Microsoft to
make - to develop APIs to pull sensor readings off the motherboard,
but then to avoid doing anything with them on the basis that this is
the mobo manufacturer's job.
Brian: There is a CPU THRM-Throttling setting but it's only there
because I modded the BIOS and put it in! It's one of the few
configurable options that can be made visible on this board - even H/W
Monitoring, while available in the BIOS ROM itself, is completely
locked out of the user interface. This is a manufacturer override and
to be honest I cannot for the life of me figure out why MSI did that
on boards sold to OEMs in Europe, particularly Advent and Medion, for
use in SFF PCs (which are by definition more prone to cooling issues).
Mine's a Philips Freeline LS2100 by the way. As for MSI specific
software; I've got something on there that monitors the drivers but I
haven't seen a hardware monitoring tool for this board.
If you can't find PCAlert for download on the MSI site, I have it and can put it on a web page for you to download. It's a 4,445 KB zip file.
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