Thank you much for the valuable information Guenter. Regards, JT On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Jon Torrey wrote: > > > > > > The hardware monitoring function in the chip was not activated > > > by the BIOS. > > > > > > All I can see under Super IO Configuration ( inside the BIOS ) is Serial > > Port configuration along with a Parallel Port configuration. > > Would this have anything to do with ACPI? I do see something ISA related > > when invoking lspci if that makes any difference? > > > No, this is a chip configuration problem. > > > I have seen this on some Supermicro server boards, where > > > hardware monitoring is handled by an IPMI chip. > > > > > > I have an American Megatrends BIOS for an i7 processor on an embedded > > board. I do not believe it has an IPMI chip. > > > > > > > Enabling the chip manually from user space is technically possible, > > > > but I would not recommend it > > > > > > How would I go about doing this? I ran superiotool and got the following > > in return: > > > > superiotool r6637 > > > > Found Winbond W83627HF/F/HG/G (id=0x52, rev=0x41) at 0x2e > > > Yes, but its hardware monitoring functionality is still disabled. > > Many possibilities: It may be a BIOS configuration bug, it might be > on purpose and there is nothing connected to the SuperIO chip's hardware > monitoring pins, or the vendor doesn't want customers to access the chip. > You might want to get in touch with the board vendor and ask. > > Thanks, > Guenter > _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
