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HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

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Reply 60 of 683, by Mumak

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vorob wrote on 2020-01-16, 12:07:

I did, no file was generated.

Tried random old version (3.51.748) and it works.

That's very strange. Does the welcome window show up at least, or the BSOD happens before you get a chance to see that screen (and enter the Settings or press Run) ?

Reply 61 of 683, by vorob

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the BSOD happens before you get a chance to see that screen (and enter the Settings or press Run)

Exactly.

Reply 62 of 683, by Mumak

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That's very strange. HWiNFO doesn't perform and hardware access before the welcome screen is shown, so this might indicate some other problem in your system, most probably driver/kernel related.
Is there any other special software installed? Do other tools like CPU-Z or SIV work properly there?

Reply 63 of 683, by vorob

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I just got this laptop and was unable to do a clean install of windows. I will do it later. Tried more random old builds:
351 okay
444 okay
504 and later BSOD
Does this help somehow?

Reply 64 of 683, by Mumak

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I'm sorry, that doesn't help much 🙁
I have once seen a similar problem, but on that system other tools like CPU-Z, AIDA were crashing in the same way.

Reply 65 of 683, by vorob

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CPU-Z 1.91 works okay.

Reply 66 of 683, by FreddyV

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Hi,

what is the HWInfo version working for 8086 ?
and for 386/486 ?

I did the same as you, downgrade my .MOD Player to 8088 😀

Reply 67 of 683, by Mumak

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FreddyV wrote on 2020-01-22, 09:59:
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Hi,

what is the HWInfo version working for 8086 ?
and for 386/486 ?

I did the same as you, downgrade my .MOD Player to 8088 😀

HWiNFO for DOS v4.4.1 requires 386+, all later should run on 386. The only issue is the conventional memory requirement. Hence I recommend to boot from a clean DOS 5+ without unnecessary drivers. Also make sure to load HIMEM.SYS and DOS=HIGH.
I don't have a record which version runs on 8086 anymore, but I suppose it was somewhere before 4.0.0.

Reply 70 of 683, by vorob

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Here you go. Also may there is a way to control cooler?

Reply 71 of 683, by Mumak

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Thanks. I will remove that invalid sensor, but reporting GPU temperature on that GPU is very difficult and problematic.

Reply 72 of 683, by vorob

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Any way to copy aida64 code? 😀

Reply 73 of 683, by Mumak

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vorob wrote on 2020-01-27, 22:32:

Any way to copy aida64 code? 😀

I don't need to copy/steal anything, I can ask Tamas (AIDA64 author) 😉
But AFAIR the method was pretty complicated and in the past I decided not to implement it.

Reply 74 of 683, by vorob

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You know any other tool that will work as Aida but will show min max values? Cause I need this to understand how hot this chip becomes and Aida only shows current state.

Reply 75 of 683, by Mumak

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GPU-Z should be also showing min/max if you click the sensor item. But not sure if it will support this GPU properly, it has issues with older models AFAIK.
Anyway, I will look into this how feasible it is to implement.

Reply 77 of 683, by vorob

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It's a laptop from an age where only manufacturer produced drivers... So to install smth newer i'll need to work on inf files and so on. I want to skip it for now.
78.17 is my driver

Reply 79 of 683, by vorob

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Sadly that’s exactly my version. It’s manufacturer driver.

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