see ticket for background. basically the it87 module stops working on my system (it8712), and answers 0x08 to any request. i've confirmed that i can reload the module all i want prior to when it craps the bed. i've also been logging sensors output, and time and it appears to always stop working at 10 mins of uptime. but i've only rebooted twice, which is the only way to get the chip back... i'm going to rewrite my script now so it logs the number of calls to sensors, finer granularity of time ellapsed, and system state. i'll also turn on debug in lm-sensors. any other suggestions? thanks -eric