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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. Among other information this includes:
- Processor type
- Processor and bus frequencies
- Manufacturing information
Of course the applications can read out the data only if your computer is equipped with the necessary sensors, and if Mac OS X can access them without needing third-party device drivers. Beginning in summer 2002, Apple has begun to massively drive forward the use of monitoring probes in the PowerMac series, the Xserve series, and in portable computers. Some models are equipped with 38 and more sensors. But Hardware Monitor can detect sensors on many older systems as well if they are available.
We try to detect all sensors on as many Macintosh computer types as possible. However, a prediction which sensors are available in which models is not possible, because Apple very often releases "silent product updates", where the hardware equipments of some models are changed but the names are not (specifications are"subject to change without notice"). The particular graphics card and hard disk configuration used is also important because these parts can include independent sensors, too.
What's new in this version:
- Added support for the new MacBook Pro series introduced in June 2007.
- Added support for a variety of internal temperature sensors of new hard drive models. This affects old Macintosh computers not supporting the AHCI standard.
- Users can now create a new artificial sensor type which monitors the current number of running processes.
- Users can now create several new artificial sensor types to monitor the network interfaces present in the system. It is possible to monitor the current number of incoming and outgoing packets, the current number of incoming and outgoing bytes, the current number of incoming and outgoing network errors, the current number of network collisions, and the total cumulative number of incoming and outgoing bytes. Sensors can be defined for each interface (requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
- Alert panels now display the exact time when the alert situation was detected.
- Selected display preferences for the Dock icon can now be set directly via the context menu of the Dock icon.
- By user request, the Lite version has a new menu item to immediately refresh the display of readings independent of the regular update interval.
- By user request, the Lite version has now support for sensor alerts. The actions to display alert panels, to play the warning sound, and to run external applications are supported.
- The handling of repaired or refurbished Macintosh systems which don't have a valid serial number has been enhanced.
- Modified preference values are now committed to stable storage immediately when the preferences window is closed. This can reduce the likelihood that changes are lost when the application is used to diagnose problems on a computer with defective hardware.
- The application now correctly suppresses the display of electrical sensors for NVIDIA 7600 GT MXM cards in the 24-inch iMac. In that special configuration, the power supply of the GPU cannot be monitored.
- A problem was corrected where artificial sensors for monitoring RAID status could only be defined for one subset of a RAID 10 configuration. It is now possible to monitor all 3 RAID subsets of a RAID 10 with three artificial sensors.
- Corrected a problem where the application could crash when an artificial power sensor was created but one of the dependent voltage or amperage sensors was removed.
- Corrected a problem where the preferences to control an external LCD box could not be deleted.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2.5 or higher
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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
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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.