PC Temperature Sensors
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Hi all, Does anyone know how programs like HWMonitor get readings from the temperature sensors inside PCs? I've looked into WMI, but the Microsoft documentation suggests it doesn't work. I know that the sensors are accessed via the SMBus on the motherboard, but that isn't accessible (as far as I know) from a user-mode program. For what I actually want to achieve, writing a kernel-mode device driver is probably a bit excessive, and almost certainly too time-consuming (particularly seeing as I've never done anything like that before). I've been googling around for about five hours now without any success. I know it's possible (after all, HWMonitor doesn't even need installing and works quite nicely), but I'm completely out of ideas. :sigh: Thanks all, Tony
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Hi all, Does anyone know how programs like HWMonitor get readings from the temperature sensors inside PCs? I've looked into WMI, but the Microsoft documentation suggests it doesn't work. I know that the sensors are accessed via the SMBus on the motherboard, but that isn't accessible (as far as I know) from a user-mode program. For what I actually want to achieve, writing a kernel-mode device driver is probably a bit excessive, and almost certainly too time-consuming (particularly seeing as I've never done anything like that before). I've been googling around for about five hours now without any success. I know it's possible (after all, HWMonitor doesn't even need installing and works quite nicely), but I'm completely out of ideas. :sigh: Thanks all, Tony