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Hardware Monitor - 4.8

Read out accessible hardware sensors.

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All Time:	(4.2)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	4.8
Release Date:	2009-09-21
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	998
Downloads (all versions):	4,028
Price:	$7.00

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Product Description:

Hardware Monitor is an application to read out all accessible hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. Currently more than 100 different Macintosh hardware sensors and more than 200 hard drive temperature sensors are supported. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. It can also store and export readings. This includes the following sensor types: Temperarature readings at different locations. Battery data of portable computers. Voltage sensors. Current (amperage) sensors. Fan speed sensors. Sensors for pulse-width controlled fans. Power and load sensors. Ambient light sensors. User-defined artificial sensors to monitor the operating system. Moreover, the applications can display additional technical information about your computer.

What's new in this version:

Support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther has been removed. The required minimum OS version is now Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Added a feature to reset different aspects of display preferences for all sensors back to recommended default values. This new feature supersedes the former features to reset sensor display colors, data acquisition settings and customized labels.
Added a feature to display 32/64 bit capabilities of the processor and the current mode of the kernel.
Added a feature to display the unique identifier (UUID) of a computer.
Added a feature to monitor the size of swap space memory which is actually in use.
Added a feature to let the user define individual sets of remotely monitored computers in a network. It is now possible to connect to whole groups of monitored systems in one step.
Added a new driver for monitoring of the internal thermal sensors of Intel processors which is also capable of supporting the 64 bit kernel version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
On PowerPC hardware, support for S.M.A.R.T. hard drive sensors accessed via SATA interfaces has been enhanced. The application will now accept the temperature sensors of unknown SATA drive models. (This has always been the standard on Intel-based computers.)
The support for hard drive sensors controlled via proprietary drivers of Sonnet and FirmTek has been enhanced.
By user request, a feature to suppress access to S.M.A.R.T. hard drive sensors has been added to the command-line version of the program.
The output channel "Screen Display" will no longer try to keep its screen position if the user changes a multi-monitor configuration while the program is not running. This makes sure the Screen Display cannot become invisible when its target monitor has been removed.
The default number of displayed digits behind the decimal point is now automatically set to zero in cases where it is known that the sensor hardware does not provide more significant digits.
When exporting readings, it is now possible to also use history windows in overlay mode as sources to get combined tables of readings for different physical quantities.
If the application loses the network connection to a remotely monitored computer, related warnings will now be suppressed automatically when a change of the network configuration on the monitoring computer itself is the main reason for the disconnect. This is useful when a mobile computer monitoring a network leaves the WiFi area, for example.
When remote-monitoring multiple computers with repaired logic boards that have invalid or erased hardware serial numbers, the application will now better keep track of the individual identifications of the affected systems.
If the application is set to automatically reconnect to a set of remotely monitored computers on startup, the reconnect will now be performed less aggressively, one by one. This avoids temporary network overload when monitoring a large number of computers.
When quitting the application, shutdown of attached alphanumeric LCD boxes has been enhanced.
The numbering of labels for user-created sensors monitoring battery units will now also start with 1 instead of beginning with 0.
Corrected a problem where the temperature values displayed for the cores of the Intel P7350 processor have been shifted by 15 degrees Celsius.
Corrected a problem where no spaces between values have been displayed in the menu-bar when the display of sensor labels has been switched off.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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HM & NVIDIA 8600M GT - Version: 4.51, 10/15/2008 02:32AM PST

marineblue

So, I've just found out I'm the lucky owner of one of the potentially defective NVIDIA 8600M GT GPU's in my mid-08 MBP.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad

So my question to fellow users of Hardware Monitor, or even the developer, is there a way I can use the app to keep a close eye on the GPU to alert me to potential problems developing, given that Apple have only extended the warranty for affected machines by 12 months.

Obviously I can check GPU temp and load, but are there likely to be any telltale patterns over time, for defective chips?

Many thanks in advance.

Good product - Version: 4.5, 5/27/2008 08:06AM PST

Krishman--2008

I purchased the license and installed the program on my MBPro. It is very detailed and allows for monitoring of a whole range of sensors. The downside is the interface which is not as good as istat menus which has supplanted HM on my mbpro. Good product all the same.

"Sensors Disconnected" - Version: 4.2, 6/28/2007 09:20AM PST

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Marcel Bresink Info

Dear Dr Bhattacharya,

thank you very much for your comments. However, it is unclear why you didn't use the built-in contact feature of Hardware Monitor to send your technical support question directly to us? We usually answer such questions within 90 minutes.

A Mac Pro usually doesn't contain any graphics card temperature sensors. It is also technically impossible that you receive a message like "Sensor disconnected" as a reading, because readouts can never contain any text messages. So something must be definitely wrong with your technical description of the problem.

I can only guess you are not displaying readings at all but the display preferences for a second computer. You may have used the remote monitoring feature of the application to monitor a different computer on your network via your Mac Pro. The remote computer is currently offline, but the Mac Pro still keeps your display preferences in case the remote system will go online again later. This would be the correct and normal behavior.

For further questions on Hardware Monitor please contact us directly.

Marcel Bresink Software-Systems
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