> My (ignorant) question is whether the reading at address 0x51 might mean > that some hardware monitoring functionality could be possible. My guess > is NO, but I just wanted to be sure before I gave up all hope! Sorry it is just EEPROM on your RAM module. The 0x44 is from SMBUS host I think. So it seems there is nothing interresting. You may try our latest sensors-detect from CVS lm_sensors maybe you have some LPC I/O. My question is: Can you see some temp status in bios? Thanks Regards Rudolf