Charles, I agree w/ Khali; we would really like to know what super i/o chip is in there (w83627thf or ...), if you could look at the board and tell us that would be a big help. thanks mds Jean Delvare wrote: >>Thanks so much for the help. I will try get to look at the physical >>machine myself this weekend to make sure, but the PDFs clearly show >>it being a 8111. I will also look at the bios (i had someone else >>look before). > > > I do not doubt there is a 8111 on-board. The output of "lspci" clearly > states this. The first question is: why does the smbus part of it > doesn't show in lspci? The second is: what hardware monitoring chip do > you have, and were is it located? From our point of view, the 8111 is > simply a bus. It doesn't provide any sensor value per se. > > Summary (admitting you do have a sensor chip somewhere): either the chip > is on the 8111 and the challenge is to enable the 8111. Either the chip > is a Super-I/O or ISA chip, and we need to know what chip it is or we > cannot do anything. > > Good luck ;) >