Reinventing the wheel

[PinkeyNBrain]

I went and talked with the tiny elves over at cpan and found I wasn't able to translate what they were trying to say. Here is my quandary:
I have been using a program called "Motherboard Monitor" (MM) very successfully out on a factory floor. For anyone not familiar with it, it effectively taps into your PCs BIOS, reads the various temp, voltage, fan speed (etc) sensors, and reports back. When you have PCs you're responsible for starting to hit the 140F mark, you want to know in a bad way.

The problem is that MM is a dieing program. If I understand correctly, the author (Alex van Kaam) has effectively given up trying to badger chip companies for address information. I've already figured out that MM will not work on some new PCs I've got on the horizon. When checking through cpan, I get inundated with genome project modules when I ask for BIOS. Is MM's replacement/equivalent out there and I'm just missing it?

 

[hungryhungryhippo]

i'm not sure about this...but shouldn't any acpi-compliant bios provide some interface for these kinds of things? in that case it should work on your new PCs. maybe checkout some acpi-stuff, if there is any on cpan.
cheers
michael

 

[stevexff]

Sometimes the motherboard manufacturers have little downloadable utilities on their websites. They're usually a bit cr@p, but they are better than nothing...

Steve

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