The END of Motherboard Monitor? (MBM)

[MichaelD]

Apparently, it's true!

Link to the site itself!

January 21st 1998 the Internet saw the 1st version of MBM v. 1.0
Juli 6th 2004, about 7.5 years later the MBM development comes to a stop

Yes you read it right, after thinking about it for several weeks I have decided to stop development on MBM. Over the years many (if not all) clones appeared that tried to do what MBM did. Some succeeded others did not. Some I feel where technically and user wise better then MBM but with an average of 6000 hits a day and coverage on almost every PC magazine in the world it still seems to be the most popular monitoring tool around. And it is better to stop at your peak

OMG...we ALL use MBM!!! Now what? Use the motherboard manufacturer's hardware utility? :Q

*Bahahaha!*

RIP, MBM. Thank you, Alex. :beer: x 100

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Apparently, it's true!

Link to the site itself!

January 21st 1998 the Internet saw the 1st version of MBM v. 1.0
Juli 6th 2004, about 7.5 years later the MBM development comes to a stop

Yes you read it right, after thinking about it for several weeks I have decided to stop development on MBM. Over the years many (if not all) clones appeared that tried to do what MBM did. Some succeeded others did not. Some I feel where technically and user wise better then MBM but with an average of 6000 hits a day and coverage on almost every PC magazine in the world it still seems to be the most popular monitoring tool around. And it is better to stop at your peak

OMG...we ALL use MBM!!! Now what? Use the motherboard manufacturer's hardware utility? :Q

*Bahahaha!*

RIP, MBM. Thank you, Alex. :beer: x 100

Whoa!

 

maybe some investor will buy it out and continue development

 

[MatthewF01]

anandtech forums should buy it
we can start a pool.


any developers in the house?

then itll be OUR tool hehe.

 

[Sunner]

Maybe he'll open source it, would be nice.

And Michael, you added a trailing backslash to the link

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: Sunner
Maybe he'll open source it, would be nice.

Nah, he said he wouldn't. There's too many NDAs for all the sensor info in the code.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter

Originally posted by: Sunner
Maybe he'll open source it, would be nice.

Nah, he said he wouldn't. There's too many NDAs for all the sensor info in the code.

Aha, sucks...
WTF would anyone need an NDA for a temp/voltage sensor anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, but those aren't exactly the most complicated devices around...

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: RalfHutter

Originally posted by: Sunner
Maybe he'll open source it, would be nice.

Nah, he said he wouldn't. There's too many NDAs for all the sensor info in the code.

Aha, sucks...
WTF would anyone need an NDA for a temp/voltage sensor anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, but those aren't exactly the most complicated devices around...

Check out lmsensors. Runs into similar problems. Of course instead of NDA's they just ignore them.

To many morons in the beuracracy of these companies to realise that people don't like to have to sign secret agreements for hardware they already own.

Also look at Nvidia, making closed source only drivers for their onboard NIC when in reality it is only a modified realtek-based chipset, which is the most generic/cheapy thing you can find nowadays. Hell I got a couple just laying around that I got for "buy 2 for 8 bucks get one free" week deal from a local computer store. But for some reason Nvidia feels the need to keep it a closely gaurded secret, made it similar enough that it gets mis-detected as a realtek-based card, but different enough that it seems to work, but it won't.

They should repeat this mantra 4000 times till it sinks in: "customers are our friends, not our enemies."

 

[KnickNut3]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
January 21st 1998 the Internet saw the 1st version of MBM v. 1.0
Juli 6th 2004, about 7.5 years later the MBM development comes to a stop

Isn't that 6.5 years? Maybe he's stopping because he forgot how to do math?

 

[JackBurton]

Man, this really sucks!

 

[notfred]

Why does it suck so much? The program doesn't really do anything. It's about as useful as weatherbug.

Look, it's 77 degrees out!

Look, my voltage is 12.05!

Neither is really all that helpful.

 

[XplosiV]

Originally posted by: KnickNut3

Originally posted by: MichaelD
January 21st 1998 the Internet saw the 1st version of MBM v. 1.0
Juli 6th 2004, about 7.5 years later the MBM development comes to a stop

Isn't that 6.5 years? Maybe he's stopping because he forgot how to do math?

Note jan 21st 98' - 'The internet' saw MBM V1 - 6.5 years of public release plus time to research, develop
and bug test V1 before it was released

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why does it suck so much? The program doesn't really do anything. It's about as useful as weatherbug.

Look, it's 77 degrees out!

Look, my voltage is 12.05!

Neither is really all that helpful.

Um.... When your computer is having strange crashes and you look and your voltage is 11.20 then you'll find out how usefull these things are.

Or are you just pretending not to know anything about how computer hardware works?

 

[randumb]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Man, this really sucks!

 

[screw3d]

I hope something happens to MBM like what happened to AIDA32.. I don't know what happened exactly, but Everest by Lavalys picked up where AIDA32 left

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: screw3d
I hope something happens to MBM like what happened to AIDA32.. I don't know what happened exactly, but Everest by Lavalys picked up where AIDA32 left

Actually, I think they took a small step backward - no more integrated update feature, and the plugins (monitor calibration aid, drive benchmarks, CPUID). I still use AIDA32 when I want those.

The MBM site says that there are MBM clones out there? Are there really any that do all that it can do?

 

[SkaarjMaster]

It sucks about MBM, but I don't have any unsupported motherboards or other devices for either program (MBM or Aida32) yet so I'll continue to use them. It will be interesting to watch what happens to Everest though.

Just want to let people know that I'm sticking with MBM 5.3.6.0, which is the next to last version. I tried installing the newest version 5.3.7.0 as well as the update 5.3.7.1 and both gave my an error that I couldn't even solve in debug mode. In fact, I couldn't even read the error message because it remained behind the banner for MBM at startup of the program. I tried installing on my XP system (Dragonslayer) and it didn't work; I'm not even trying on the 98SE system (Dragon1). Both systems are still using 5.3.6.0. See Ya!

 

[LouPoir]

Bummer

 

[yankeesfan]

why did you bump this thread?

 

[tranceport]

I stopped usuing mbm a long time ago.....