How can I tell whether my mainboard has a system monitor chip?
Check the manual. Most mainboards will display system monitoring information in the BIOS (power management). You can also try other software like Intel’s LDCM (LanDesk Client Manager) or other popular software like Motherboard Monitor. Q: My mainboard has system monitoring facilities but Sandra does not display any information! A: While Sandra supports popular system monitoring chips (see Compatibility) it does not support all of them. If it is supported, it may be disabled – make sure the option Enable disabled HW monitors is turned on. It is also possible that the SMBus/i2c controllers (especially on Dell/Compaq systems) are disabled. In that case make sure the option Ignore disabled host controllers is turned off. Q: Sometimes I get system monitoring information, sometimes I don’t. Why? A: The SMBus may be noisy or the HW monitor may be unreliable. Or it may be disabled and enabled by a different hardware monitoring program, see above. Q: I get system monitoring information only the
