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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:
- Added a feature to detect a common damage of Leopard installations where users have intentionally destroyed the system's speech synthesizer to save storage space.
- The readings of non-working GPU-load sensors provided by some of Apple's graphics drivers for Leopard are now correctly suppressed by the application. Instead of displaying a constant zero value, the sensor will be removed entirely.
- Support for monitoring the frequency of Intel processors based on 45 nm technology ("Penryn") has been withdrawn. The sensor might not reflect the true performance mode under all operating conditions.
- The mechanism to detect ambiguities in machine production dates has been optimized. Computers built in 2008 are now always displayed with their correct dates of production.
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
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5
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- Version: 4.5, 5/27/2008 08:06AM PST
Krishman--2008
"Sensors Disconnected" - Version: 4.2, 6/28/2007 09:20AM PST
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
Marcel Bresink Infothank 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
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.