speedfan GPU and HD monitoring problems

logscool · Post by **logscool** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:31 pm

The title basically says it all with speedfan I am not able to monitor my HD and graphics card temps. I am using a WD 6400AAKS, zotac 9600 GT, and a P5Q Pro motherboard. I am able to monitor CPU temps, Core 0-1 temps, system temps, and AUX temps. But not in any of the screens do I see HD or GPU temps.

edh · Post by **edh** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:48 pm

Does the NVIDIA driver give you the core and ambient temp? If not, then perhaps the card does not have temp monitoring, this is possible.

Beyond that, sometimes Speedfan does not detect graphics card temperature probes specifically as GPU, annoyingly sometimes it does it twice. Sometimes names like Aux, or local and remote are used. Try heating up your graphics card a bit and seeing if any of the temperature sensors move a lot. There may be an offset which you can calibrate out in Speedfan.

alphabetbackward · Post by **alphabetbackward** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:49 am

Just a thought.

I accidentally had S.M.A.R.T. disabled in the BIOS and I could get HDD temperatures when booting a computer but wouldn't read when I resumed from hibernate.

logscool · Post by **logscool** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:19 am

I know that SMART was by default enabled to auto and I went in and changed it to enabled just to be sure. As for the graphics card what screen in the Nvidia control panel would I see temps if there are any.
Thanks for all of the help so far.

logscool · Post by **logscool** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:17 am

just reinstalled speedfan and can now get GPU temps but still no HD any help will be appreciated.

jessekopelman · Post by **jessekopelman** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:50 pm

If you are running Vista, the only way to get SMART data is to run Speedfan as Administrator.

logscool · Post by **logscool** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:54 pm

I am the admin on the system.

jessekopelman · Post by **jessekopelman** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:22 pm

Is it Vista? Because being logged in as Admin is not the same as running programs as Administrator, in that OS. In Vista that is something you have to do explicitly, regardless of your user status.

logscool · Post by **logscool** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:52 pm

Thank you for all the help I have now gotten everything resolved. Running the program as admin was the problem. Thanks again for all your help.