HDD Temprature in EVGA 780i

[Sir Ali]

Why doesn't it appear in HWMonitor and PC Wizard?

I looked in the BIOS and I didn't have anything that says S.M.A.R.T...

 

[Sir Ali]

Can someone move this to the Motherboards forum? I just noticed I posted in the wrong section.

Thanks.

 

[graysky]

hmm... I dunno about your mb, but there should be an option to enable/disable smart as you suggested. Download smartmontools which is the best freeware smart reader if you like commandline apps. Otherwise, get the freeware version of everest and go to storage>smart to see if any info is there... if not, something is wrong with your board... is your BIOS up-to-date?

 

[Sir Ali]

BIOS is up to date. My chip is basically a 680i in which S.M.A.R.T option choice was disabled in BIOS although it's enabled by default. I came across a thread in some forum in which they blamed the SATA drivers for Vista as the user who had my problem could read the temps. in XP.

Anyhow, the hard drives are really cool in my Cosmos S with it's excellent air flow using 5x120mm fans (3 top, 1 front, 1 back) and 1x200mm on the side panel so it's doesn't matter to know their temps.

 

[graysky]

@sir ali - smart will give you much more info than just operating temps... you want to enable it. If you enabled it in the bios, have you tried either of the programs I suggested to read the data?

 

[TC91]

similar issue, i have the 680i LT, i ve looked everywhere in the bios but i also cant seem to find a setting for s.m.a.r.t but its not a big deal though.

 

[Sir Ali]

Originally posted by: graysky
@sir ali - smart will give you much more info than just operating temps... you want to enable it. If you enabled it in the bios, have you tried either of the programs I suggested to read the data?

There is no option in BIOS to enable SMART. I tried Everest on Vista x64 but cannot see anythig in SMART category.

NVIDIA disabled the option of choosing to enable/disable it. It should be enabled by default but SATA drivers should have a problem like someone on another forum said since he could read HDD temps. in XP.