VB & temp monitoring...

[The Coolest]

I want to make my own app in Visual Basic so it'll monitor my temps and if they raise above indicated level the computer should shutdown...
Now my question is how do I get the temps from BIOS or MBM5?
Any help will be apriciated...

[drunkmonkey]

I would like to know to...

[Quaky]

my guess is that you will need to query a certain I/O range or memory address. I don't know which address it is but it could be specified in the official AMD mobo/socket specs. If not you can ask some people from VIA.

I'm affraid you will encounter problems getting the data on windows 2k because it uses a sophisticated HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and won't allow you to get data without going through the hall. I had this problem before while trying to get the LPT1 port to hook up electronics devices with data.

hope this helps.

[Quaky]

Forgot to ask, If you succeed will you VB program be open source ? :D

[The Coolest]

Yea, I'm sure it will be.
Now i only have to succeed... :rolleyes:

[Valkyr]

It may be worth investigating the API commands, let the OS check the temps for you.

[XWRed1]

Does the OS check the temps? Its my understanding that MBM5 has support for individual boards/chipsets. Maybe it'll let you pull them via DDE, but then MBM5 would already be running. Maybe you can find some premade DLLs out there for it, and get the temps from them.