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Monitoring Your Laptop's Health?

Posted by Cliff on from the digital-vitals dept.

paulius_g asks: "I have an eMachines laptop running Windows and I would like to know how today's geeks monitor their laptops caracteristics (CPU temperature, fan speeds, SMART, etc.) There are software to monitor normal motherboards, but laptop motherboards are usually unsupported on these kinds of software. I am in desperate need in such a software as my laptop overheats a lot while the fan is running at a low speed. So, what do you use to monitor your laptop?"

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  1. First ID the problem... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I have an eMachines laptop running Windows...

    Well, there's your problem right there...

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    "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
  2. Re:Generally I use... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Fair points. But my impression is that if the original poster is aware that his machine is overheating a lot, that sort of indicates to me that there is already something wrong (e.g. as one poster mentioned, dust on components) which he should get fixed before he loses the thing.

    It's better to fix the problem now than to wait until the thing fails, which Sod's law tells us will happen at the worst possible time.