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<meta name="author" content="Jonathan Soon Yew Teh">
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<title>MBProbe User's Manual</title>
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<body>
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<div align="Center">
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<h1>MBProbe</h1>
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<b>Version 1.31<br>
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Copyright 1998-2002 Jonathan Soon Yew Teh</b><br>
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</div>
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<div align="Center"><a href="http://web.bham.ac.uk/jst829/mbprobe/">http://web.bham.ac.uk/jst829/mbprobe/</a><br>
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</div>
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<h2>Known Issues</h2>
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<h3>Minor cosmetic issues</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Changing some settings does not affect the reading/display immediately.</li>
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<li>Changing the temperature units does not affect the units in the temperature
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property sheet immediately.</li>
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<li>Changing the temperature units does not affect the headers in the history
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log. Clear the history log to update the header.</li>
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<li>The frequency of swapping the temperature display in the system tray
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is not exact. This is due to the inaccuracy of the standard timer event.</li>
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<li>Viewing a log multiple times will result in multiple copies of Notepad.</li>
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<li>If you uncheck all status icon temperatures and click OK, MBProbe
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will automatically enable the motherboard temperature display. This is to
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ensure that a temperature will be displayed in the status icon.</li>
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<li>Checking too many temperature/fan readings for the tooltip may result
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in the tooltip being truncated. This is a limitation of Windows and no workaround
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is available.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>NT issues</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Suspending the system does not work under NT 4.0 because the OS does
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not support power management; upgrade to Windows 2000.</li>
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<li>Shutting down the system requires the shutdown privilege under NT/W2000.
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MBProbe attempts to request for this privilege but may not be successful.</li>
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<li>A few people have reported trouble installing or uninstalling the giveio.sys
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driver. Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce this under Win2000 or XP.
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As such, I am unable fix it.</li>
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<li>A few people have reported problems running full-screen DOS applications
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and/or accessing the floppy drive with the giveio.sys driver installed.
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Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce this under Win2000 or XP. As such,
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I am unable to fix it.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Hardware issues</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Systems with a VIA Apollo Pro chipset (VT82C691A+VT82C596A) may lock-up
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when starting MBProbe. If this happens start MBProbe with the "-nosmbus"
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parameter. If monitoring chips in your system are connected to the SMBus
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only, then nothing will be detected. Please ask the vendor for a BIOS upgrade
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to fix this problem.</li>
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<li>Untested hardware (programming based on the data sheets):</li>
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</ul>
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<blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>ADM1022</li>
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<li>GL525SM</li>
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<li>LM83</li>
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<li>MTP008</li>
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<li>FMS2701</li>
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<li>THMC50</li>
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</ul>
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Feedback is needed. Please report your success/failures, a complete
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set of readings, motherboard, chip address. Thanks.<br>
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</blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>ADM1022/4, FMS2701: Preliminary datasheets, specs may change.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Unsupported hardware</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>The following monitoring chips are currently unsupported:</li>
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</ul>
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<blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>National Semiconductor LM76, LM77, LM82, LM92</li>
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</ul>
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>If you have one of these and would like to help out, contact
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me and I'll give you some test programs to run.<br>
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</blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>The following SMBus hosts are currently unsupported:</li>
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</ul>
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<blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>SiS 5595B, 540, 630</li>
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</ul>
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>It is probably not necessary to support these as they already have
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built-in hardware monitoring.</blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>I2C hosts are unsupported. Some examples are:</li>
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</ul>
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<blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>SiS 5595 (hardware monitoring portion is supported though)</li>
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<li>VIA VT82C586B (common in MVP3 chipsets)</li>
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</ul>
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>These chipsets only contain an I2C host and depend on the software
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to simulate the SMBus protocol. This is messy and time consuming to implement
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and the fact that I don't have the hardware to test it on means support
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will not be implemented.<br>
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If anyone has written code for this and would be willing to allow inclusion
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of it in MBProbe then please contact me.<br>
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</blockquote>
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