PC Probe

[marko]

Hi,

I am having a big problem with installing ASUS PC Probe software. Every time
I try to install it the instalation simply hungs at the step "ASUS Probe
installation is inspecting your system configuration". I reinstalled Windows
and it did not help. My motherboard is A8N SLI Deluxe and I have Windows XP
Pro SP2.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ken']

Did you get the 64 bit version by mistake?
Ken'

 

[Ottar Tverberg]

Hi,

I am having a big problem with installing ASUS PC Probe software. Every
time
I try to install it the instalation simply hungs at the step "ASUS Probe
installation is inspecting your system configuration". I reinstalled
Windows
and it did not help. My motherboard is A8N SLI Deluxe and I have
Windows XP
Pro SP2.

Thanks in advance!

DONT EVER INSTALL IT!
That program should never been issued at all....
Its worce than virus, and will leave you with a Bios checksum error for
sure..

You have several other options for flashing bios.

regards
Ottar T

 

[wally]

Didn't know probe was for flashing bios???, just reads the cpu temp,
fan speeds ,etc on my machine & works fine...

 

[Ottar Tverberg]

Didn't know probe was for flashing bios???, just reads the cpu temp,
fan speeds ,etc on my machine & works fine...

sorry I meant Liveupdate...

Everest from http://www.lavalys.com/ can do most of the things you need...

regards
Ottar t

 

[Ronald Cole]

Didn't know probe was for flashing bios???, just reads the cpu temp,
fan speeds ,etc on my machine & works fine...

PC Probe works for me, too. Just doesn't display the 2nd case fan and
no way to configure it to...

 

[Ed]

PC Probe works for me, too. Just doesn't display the 2nd case fan and
no way to configure it to...

AFAIK Probe can only reads 3 fans, most Asus boards only have 3
monitored fan headers on them, CPU, Chassis & Power.

Ed

 

[Ken']

One would think that in the near future Asus will change that to 2 or even 3
case fans being monitored as most case have at least that many now.
Ken'

 

[Brad Clarke]

My A7V400-MX only seems to have the chassis and CPU sensors connected
(Antec case & psu).

PC Probe always shows the power fan at 0, even though the fan in the psu
is running.

 

[Mark A]

My A7V400-MX only seems to have the chassis and CPU sensors connected
(Antec case & psu).

PC Probe always shows the power fan at 0, even though the fan in the psu
is running.

Your PSU would have to have a fan monitor cable (not all do), and you would
have to plug it into the correct MB connector for the PC Probe to see the
RPMs.

It's not magic.

 

[Brad Clarke]

But it could be

The specs on my board indicates it only has monitoring capabilities for
the CPU fan and one chassis fan.

 

[Paul]

But it could be

The specs on my board indicates it only has monitoring capabilities for
the CPU fan and one chassis fan.

The number of fans monitored is determined by the monitor chip.
There are chips that have two fan monitors and chips that have
three fan monitors.

When a motherboard has three fan headers, and a chip with two
fan monitors, one of the headers simply doesn't use the tachometer
signal that comes from the fan. I would presume the unimplemented
channel would read zero in Asus Probe.

Some of the monitor chips, also have Q-fan type support for all
channels. But, Asus only puts one power transistor on the motherboard,
for control of the CPU fan header. Some of the newer motherboards
have Qfan2, which allows the CPU fan header and a second fan header
to be controlled by the monitor chip. A program like speedfan cannot
know how many channels have power transistors - while speedfan
can attempt to adjust a channel in the monitor chip, if there is
no driver transistor on the board, then nothing will happen (i.e.
fan continues to run full speed).

To see what a typical chip looks like, try this doc.

http://www.winbond-usa.com/products/winbond_products/pdfs/PCIC/627hf.pdf

HTH,
Paul