Questions tagged [sensors]
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SpeedFan suddenly stops being able to detect controllers and sensors mid game
so I'm playing games on my PC and I have some fan control setup using SpeedFan for my PWM fans which usually works really nice. However, the other day my game wasn't running so smoothly and I saw that ...
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Create Discovery Rule for Zabbix Agent
I am trying to create a discovery rule to automate task of creating new items for temperature sensors. We have inbuilt key:sensor[device,sensor,.
I had added sensor name manually key: sensor[coretemp-...
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PC is shutting down due to overheating but heat sink is cool to the touch
my PC is freezing up and shutting down. I have tried reseating the heatsink but the issue isn't fixed. I am very new to hardware maintenance and I'm not sure what to try next, any advice appreciated ...
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Locate hall effect sensor for disabling
We are wanting to use windows tablets in a high magnetic field. The problem we have encountered is the sensor used to detect a "smart cover" and shut off the screen is being triggered upon entered the ...
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Is using it87 Linux driver with ASUS M5A99FX safe?
Can it87 Linux driver conflict with BIOS or hardware devices (motherboard ASUS M5A99FX PRO 2)? For example, there is a function in Linux driver (drivers/hwmon/it87.c):
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* Must be called with data-&...
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What temp sensors does my motherboard have?
How can I tell what temperature sensors my motherboard has and then be able to know what those sensors are when looking at various monitoring programs?
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Dell EC not detected after Windows crashed accessing it but is detected again when accessing it after some time. EC failure or compatibility issue?
When accessing Dell Embedded Controller (EC), which should be a temperature sensor on Dell Studio XPS 1645 notebook PC with SpeedFan and HWInfo, Windows would randomly crash with BSOD with memory-...
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Cpu is reporting its at 108 Celsius
My CPU in my HP Laptop ENVY TouchSmart m6-n113dx AMD FX-Series FX-7500 (2.10GHz) 6GB Memory 750GB HDD AMD Radeon R7 Series 15.6" Touchscreen Windows 8.1 1 Year warranty is reporting its at 108 Celsius ...
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How easily and continuously monitoring CPU's temperature using only "sensors" (without a gui widget)?
How easily and continuously monitoring the CPU's temperature using only "sensors"? That is, how continuously monitoring CPU's temperature without additional software (without a gui widget, for example)...
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How fast should a hot laptop's fan spin?
I am having some problems with my T420 Lenovo laptop overheating. The fan is working, in that I feel air being blown and can hear it when I put my ear near the heat sink fins. I have noticed however, ...
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Disable light sensor of Webcam which lights up LED
I use an external webcam with pre-built LED lights which light up in low-light situations. The light sensor is on the top of the webcam.
The software supplied with the webcam doesn't have a function ...
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Could my CPU Temperature Sensor be broken?
One of my older computers started shutting down suddenly and when I tried running it again, it would give me the beep code for overheating. However, I tried to get some info using Speccy, but couldn't ...
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Mini "Xinda" board with 3 pins
Does anybody know what is this board, if it has some resistors and how is it wired to the sensor.
The component on it is Dallas 18B20 digital temperature sensor.
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Receive realtime data from phone
I am using an android app that streams real-time accelerometer data to the specified ip address of a server. I have written a "server" in C running on Linux which is running in VMware.
I am connected ...
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Strange battery behavior (not discharging)
Lately my laptop got this problem. Right after i unplug it (with full charge battery) it says that the duration remaining is about 30 minutes.
Then, after few seconds, it drops from 100% to 90/96% ...
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