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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
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
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
Customer Care
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
Customer Care
"Sensors Disconnected" - Version: 4.2, 6/20/2007 07:09PM PST
(1 of 5 users found this comment useful)
ishanb
Except for the graphics card temperature sensor, all other sensor readouts read "Sensor disconnected" on a MacPro running 10.4.10. Temperature Monitor can read the sensors except for CPUs C and D. I don't know where the problem lies. The Mac is working fine, check out fine with Apple's Hardware Test utility, Diskwarrior, etc. Any help appreciated from a long-term registered user. Thanks.
Ishan Bhattacharya, MD
Ishan Bhattacharya, MD
Hardware Monitor is back! - Version: 3.1, 11/10/2005 01:19PM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
PrimeWaveZ
I stopped using Hardware Monitor on my PowerBook earlier this year since I obtained one of the units with sensors that did not refresh. I still used it on my G4 tower at home, though. However, with this new 3.1 update, it is back in the menu bar of my PowerBook for good since a workaround was found. I love this app and how it lets me keep tabs on my system. Along with NetMonitor, this is one of the only non-Apple items in my menu bar. Thanks Marcel!
Trancemac was correct - Version: 1.5, 2/28/2005 11:52AM PST
(7 of 11 users found this comment useful)
M Boreham
at the time he wrote it. I had stopped using it because of the KPs which I experienced, after discussing it with the author.
Hurrah that it's fixed, great app.
Hurrah that it's fixed, great app.
@Trance Mac - Version: 1.4, 2/10/2005 06:15AM PST
(7 of 11 users found this comment useful)
Question Mark
Trance Mac, what you write is not really helpful. Please re-read the link you have posted. Apple has fixed the problem.
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- @Trance Mac
Do not buy extra sensor options cause kernel panic in OS 10.3 - Version: 1.21, 10/26/2004 03:49PM PST
(5 of 15 users found this comment useful)
Trance Mac
Due to a fault in Mac OSX, Hardware monitor is causing a kernel panic when it reads out the RPM of the Fans. So do not buy this product until this problem is fixed by Apple.
See the information on the developers website:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/HWMonFCUWarning.html
Besides this, and because it's not the fault of the programmer, gread product.
Use the free demo version! It's gread.
See the information on the developers website:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/HWMonFCUWarning.html
Besides this, and because it's not the fault of the programmer, gread product.
Use the free demo version! It's gread.
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Does what it says it will do - Version: 1.0, 7/21/2004 06:13AM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
davert
Puts temperature into menu bar, dock, and two windows (or your choice of one or more) and includes alerts. Nicely customizable. Works fine.
Nice - Version: 1.0, 7/20/2004 01:50PM PST
(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)
Ewout Schalkwijk
but would be more nicer if it looked more like the way Apple presents it like in a Xserve
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.