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Motherboard Monitor = P.O.S.

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VBboy

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What the F*ck is up with this Motherboard Monitor POS ?! It shows 127 Celcius (not Far.) CPU temperature. Stupid. This is on the Epox 4g4a+ and a 2.26 Ghz P4. Is there a better program out there that I can use? This thing has a pretty bad interface, too..

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Check the MBM forums for info on your board. It works great for me though, and you can use it to monitor harddrive temps or turn off your machine.
 
MBM works great, the hardest thing is setting it up right,if you choose the wrong sensor settings etc it will give you wrong readings,using your BIOS temps to get the right readings will help you find the right sensor readings, also read the MBM help section it does have a lot of good info.
 
MBM works great for me (even on my 4G4A). I've been using the program for years.

RTFM before you start bashing the program 😀
 
Originally posted by: Wingznut PEZ
Yeah, I never could stand MM either. Not sure why people like it so much.
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Same here,I could never get used to it,too much trouble to setup & stuff.

Most mobos come with a nice monitoring utility,that's what I use.
 
rtfm, HAHAHA!

I've used MBM5 for quite a while and i've always found it very useful and easy to set up.

Not sure of another program though.
 
I have VIA Hardware Monitor, but I use MBM in the system tray to easily monitor my temps. It works fine and is accurate. If I open the control panel, it also lets me know my psu voltage levels.

~box
 
I too hated the thing, but because of this thread, I looked at the help section, for once 🙂. It look me less than 6 minutes to configure it, and now it's working great! I think it's great now, now just another POS sitting on my computer. So in a sense, thanks for making me read the help 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Jumpem
Check the MBM forums for info on your board. It works great for me though, and you can use it to monitor harddrive temps or turn off your machine.
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I did the dll stuff for the hard drive temps, and it says that "if your HDD has a sensor"...how do you know if it has a sensor? I guess I don't since nothing showed up in the temps section, but, I have all Maxtors and a WD drive..1 is 4 months old + - 1 day, so why wouldn't any of them have sensors?

 
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: Wingznut PEZ
Yeah, I never could stand MM either. Not sure why people like it so much.
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Same here,I could never get used to it,too much trouble to setup & stuff.

Most mobos come with a nice monitoring utility,that's what I use.
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Ditto here. The setup and display choices of MBM always frustrated me. I used to use hmonitor, but after paying for the shareware the guy who wrote it decided to stop answering my emails when I needed a new key code due to system upgrades. Ehh...wasn't worth the trouble anyway.
 
Is there a newer version of mbprobe. The one I found for download is over a year old. Is this thing even going to read my 4G4A+?
 
I prefer MBM. Stupid POS asus probe sucks. I've run both at the same time and it seems that asus probe has trouble reading. Whenever asus probe says the fan stops or says it is going -17xxx rpm MBM is still reading the same as it was. Another thing while having both running the CPU temp was 46c. It jumped to 127c on asus probe and it still said 46c on MBM.
 
Hehe, thanks for all your responses.

I am a software developer (5+ years of C++, VC++ and VB), and I firmly believe that the user should NEVER have to RTFM. If the program is not intuitive, then it's the fault of the programmer (or, in a large company, the software interface research and development team). How many of you actually read the manual for Windows, or MS Word, or Netscape? That software is so easy to understand (and to crash, of course), that the user can simply sit down and start using it. And believe me, MS Word is MUCH more complex than the Motherboard Monitor.

Even if I need to configure it first, what's with all those little controls/buttons in the corner of the window? Why use flat buttons? Why not have a titlebar by which the user can easily drag the window? Bleh. I'd do their interface for $500 😉

And they don't even have a wizard to guide you through the set up. Come on, freaking WinZip has a wizard!

Take care, motherboard monitor lovers and all others 🙂
 
I've been using SpeedFan for a while now and like it a lot more than MBM. SpeedFan not only monitors temps, it also lets you adjust the speed of the fans hooked up to your motherboard.
 
You're right that it shouldn't be imparitve to RTFM, but to get the most out of any software you need the manual. Advanced features will never be intuitive, that's why they are advanced. Oh well I guess if wizards are what you want then enjoy the ones that are popping up for every stupid, routine windows and otherwise action.

Jason
 
Software is a master plan conceived by geniuses to be executed by idiots. Before doing anything first you must ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?".
 
mbm is free.

never heard ppl bash free software. if you don't like it, break out your credit card or fire up you pay pal account.

people here are comparing free software coded by one person with software costing hundreds of dollars, coded by large teams. that in itself is a huge compliment for mbm.
 
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