Notebook hardware control and monitoring software
Notebook hardware control and monitoring software is very neat utility for controlling hardware components on your notebook computers and it is free for personal use!
Using this utility you can:
- Monitor CPU clock, CPU load and CPU voltage
- Monitor CPU temperature and hard drive temperature
- Control CPU multiplier
- Control CPU warning and shutdown temperature
- Monitor hard drive SMART and temperature
- Monitor physical memory and virtual memory state
- Monitor battery status
I just found this software and still testing it. You can download notebook hardware control utility here. Make sure to read the beginner’s guide.
Entry Filed under: Hardware Test Utilities
May 9th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Kayvan,
I just googled for laptop temperature monitoring software and found SpeedFan. Check it out, I haven’t tried it yet and not sure if it will run on a laptop. Looks like it’s free. You are welcome to update us if it works on your laptop.
May 9th, 2006 at 10:06 am
I’m running NHC now on my Toshiba Satellite A70, but I see no CPU temperature. Does anyone know of any software that can give me a peek into the CPU temp for that model?
May 7th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Ed,
I think it’s a compatibility issue. I am running this software on my Toshiba Satellite A105-S361 notebook. The notebook has Pentium M 2GHz processor. The CPU voltage and temperature fields are readable and the multiplier is accessible (haven’t tried it yet). The only diagram I cannot see is the battery charge rate.
May 6th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
What are your thoughts on this software? I am running it now on my Satellite A75 and it seems to work well as a system monitor, but the CPU Voltage and temperature fields are grayed out and unusable. Thus i cannot adjust the mulitplier or even see what my current CPU temp is (The HD temp readout works fine). Is this a compatability issue?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Dylan,
I think it is not possible.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:29 am
I have and old laptop with a great screen on it. I would love to be able to talk the screen off and wire it up to a VGA so i can use it on my desktop. Is it possible??? Anyone have any ideas???
April 30th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
I think you would be fine with 7200 RPM hard drive. Try to remove the wireless card and run the laptop without it for a while. Does it make any difference?
April 30th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for the quick reply.
I confirmed that in the area I mentioned, the wireless card is to the right of the mouse. I removed the cover from the bottom to confirm. It’s not real hot but I did notice it while my hand was resting next to the touch mouse.
I’ve been considering going to a 7200 rpm drive but was thinking it might add to much heat. What are your thoughts? I already have 2 gigs of RAM, not sure if that would add heat or not.
April 30th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Toshiba Satellite M55 is a pretty new model and I haven’t seen any with an overheating problem yet. The CPU, the fan and the heatsink are located in the left top corner. There is nothing that can generate heat on the right side from the mouse. The closest is the hard drive. You can remove the hard drive cover and run the laptop for a while. Check the hard drive. Normally the hard drive would be warm.
April 30th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Speaking of monitoring heat issues, have you ever noticed on Toshiba Satellite M55-S3294 models that it gets pretty warm near the area of the internal wireless card (to the right of the touch mouse pad)? If so, do you have have suggestions on a cooling method or is this just normal?