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812321 2009-09-21 02:15:00 Afternoon all, got a lappy here with an interesting issue, long and short of it is I want to be able to check CPU running temps without booting into Windows (notebook won't) and the BIOS does not have a hardware monitoring function.

Any ideas? :thanks
wratterus (105)
812322 2009-09-21 02:24:00 damn! , i would've recommended speedfan (www.almico.com). GameJunkie (72)
812323 2009-09-21 02:25:00 Yeah that's what I normally use. :xmouth:

Just had a look through the UBCD too and there doesn't seem to be anything on there for temp monitoring.
wratterus (105)
812324 2009-09-21 02:55:00 The BIOS has no temp reporting?? Wow...

Anyway, your best bet is probably a BartPE / WinPE CD with speedfan or something on it. Though that's not that different to actually booting to windows, heh.

Basically, if the BIOS doesn't report it, you're gonna have to boot to an OS of some sort.
inphinity (7274)
812325 2009-09-21 02:59:00 The BIOS has no temp reporting?? Wow...

Anyway, your best bet is probably a BartPE / WinPE CD with speedfan or something on it. Though that's not that different to actually booting to windows, heh.

Basically, if the BIOS doesn't report it, you're gonna have to boot to an OS of some sort.

Yeah it's a Compaq with pretty much no BIOS :lol: Can change the boot order and VGA memory size and that's about it. Will try a BartPE boot cd, good idea.
wratterus (105)
812326 2009-09-21 07:11:00 not uncommon for compaqs not to have sensors at all.

stick a temp gauge sensor (ie k type) on the part you want to check. obviously a bit tricky with cpu etc but not impossible.
tweak'e (69)
812327 2009-09-21 07:54:00 Most Linux live CDs should have sensor data available too - take a look at lm_sensors. Erayd (23)
812328 2009-09-21 08:52:00 I use HWmonitor

www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
Cheezels (14809)
812329 2009-09-22 00:44:00 BartPE had speedfan, but it was a slightly older version and didn't see the sensor. Managed to get into windows and the latest version of speedfan saw the CPU. Gave me the info I needed, the CPU running at over 70deg on idle would have been causing issues. Thanks for the help. :thumbs: wratterus (105)
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