Hi Jake, Please keep the list in Cc. On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:21:52 +1200, Jake Briggs wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > Is this board advertised as having hardware monitoring capabilities? Do > > you see temperatures or fan speeds in the BIOS setup screens? > > Well the documentation from intel about this board say this > (ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/se7210tp1-e/sb/tpsse7210tp1e20.pdf) > : > > ---- 8< --- > The Winbond* W83627HF-AW I/O Controller provides the following features: > ? Two serial ports > ? Serial IRQ interface compatible with serialized IRQ support for PCI > systems > ? PS/2-style mouse and keyboard interfaces > ? Interface for one 1.44 MB diskette drive > ? Intelligent power management, including a programmable wake-up event > interface > ? PCI power management support > The BIOS Setup program provides configuration options for the I/O > controller. > ---- 8< --- > > It also says that "Hardware support for monitoring voltages, > temperature, and fans." is provided by "National Semiconductor > PC87431integrated management controller." Ah. Smells like IPMI. That's a complex setup which isn't fully supported yet. You'll have to take a look at this project: http://bmcsensors-26.sourceforge.net/ I can't help you further with this, sorry. > This machine shut itself down a couple of weeks ago due to a high cpu > temperature - investigation revealed broken fans! When I turned it back > on, the BIOS error log mentioned some code (I forget exactly what it > was) but googling told me that it was a high cpu temperature failure! > When I first installed linux on this machine, I was in a bit of a hurry > so when I installed lm-sensors and it didn't work straight away, I kind > of forgot about it! -- Jean Delvare
