Hello, > I recently contacted MSI about another motherboard, asking them if it > had a secondary monitoring chip. I knew it had. They told it had not. I > told them I knew it had. They told I were wrong... > > Don't trust docs. Don't trust support. These are hints at best, but only > solely the truth. :) So we see, the customer support also knows nothing about their own products. > > Maybe I try to > > connect the system-fan to the FAN2 input on my mainboard. > > If you don't use the FAN2 input, yes, why not. I'll try it when my new processor arrives. > There is something there. Something we don't know yet, but it's there. > Please provide the output of "i2cdump 0 0x18" (make sure i2c-viapro is > loaded). (I got the strange feeling that I *already* asked you for that > output... Please forgive me if this is the case). no problem. In your last mail you don't talk about this, but it's ok. I append the output to this mail. thanks, Martin Fernau -- Name : Martin Fernau Mail : martin at martin-fernau.de URL : http://www.martin-fernau.de icq : 14509914 -------------- next part -------------- i2cdump 0 0x18 No size specified (using byte-data access) WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse! I will probe file /dev/i2c-0, address 0x18, mode byte You have five seconds to reconsider and press CTRL-C! 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef 00: f9 09 07 f0 00 3f ff ff 17 17 00 00 00 10 ff ff ????.?..??...?.. 10: ff 10 00 00 0c 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff .?..?........... 20: 60 13 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff `?.............. 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................