FAQ - General

When I start MBM my PC speakers begins to beep

MBM by default resets the sensor chip, sometimes the bios can not cope with this and thinks there is an alarm situation with the sensor chip. It is possible to manually override the MBM setting that it Resets the sensor chip.

Open the MBM 5.ini file with notepad, the file is located in the <MBM 5 install directory>\data
In this INI file you will find at the top a section starting with [General]
In this section locate the entry: Ignore Reset=0 and change it to Ignore Reset=1
If the above entry is not there (look carefully) then you can simply add it yourself so you end up with something like this:

[General]
Language=English
Fahrenheit=0
Degree Symbol=1
Interval Time=100
etc. etc.
Show Debug Window=0
Ignore SMB=0
Ali SMBus=1
Ignore Reset=1

I have a SolTek SL-75KV2-X (or any other board is also possible) and I get a reboot as soon as MBM starts?

For some reason scanning the SMBus on early version of this board made the whole system reset. is possible to manually override the MBM setting to scan the Smbus.

Open the MBM 5.ini file with notepad, the file is located in the <MBM 5 install directory>\data
In this INI file you will find at the top a section starting with [General]
In this section locate the entry: Ignore SMB=0 and change it to Ignore SMB=1
If the above entry is not there (look carefully) then you can simply add it yourself so you end up with something like this:

[General]
Language=English
Fahrenheit=0
Degree Symbol=1
Interval Time=100
etc. etc.
Show Debug Window=0
Ignore SMB=1

Exception Exception in module mbm.dll

The most common reason for this is you turned on the CPU Usage code, this code needs some info from your registry, if it can't get it the above error appears, as the creator of the CPU code explained to me:

The date below is the header from a user who got the Exception Exception in module mbm.dll error:

Signature = ('P', 'E', 'R', 'F')
LittleEndian = 1,
Version = 1,
Revision = 1,
TotalByteLength = 96,
HeaderLength = 96,
NumObjectTypes = 0,
DefaultObject = 238,
SystemTime = (2001, 10, 3, 31, 18, 4, 15, 390),
Reserved = 0,
PerfTime = 48743419653,
PerfFreq = 3579545,
PerfTime100nSec = 126490250553903680,
SystemNameLength = 8,
SystemNameOffset = 88

The most important is the NumObjectTypes, as you see it is zero. It means that system returns an empty data block :( There are many
possible reasons because performance subsystem is a set of plug-ins. For example look on the key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfOS\Performance. There you will see Library value that points to dll that processes data collecting requests. If this library is corrupted/renamed/moved/deleted or - the same - the registry key is corrupted/renamed/moved/deleted then the data will not be collected.

So the code in MBM seems to be correct. To solve this issue the cpu usage code has to be turned off, to do this without being able to start MBM you need to open the MBM 5.ini file located in the MBM\data directory. Find the entry "Enable CPU Usage=1" and change the 1 to 0, save the fime and you can use MBM again

[update] at Exctrlst.exe: Extensible Performance Counter List you can download a tool that can enable and disable the PerfOS, disabling it will cause the above error so it might be worth checking if you have it enabled

[update 2] J Mashton posted the post below in the forum at http://www.livewiredev.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2461:

CPU Usage Fix
Sorry if this has already been posted, I searched but couldn't find a specific answer. But I did find a reference to a registry entry:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfOS\Performance

In there was a registry entry:

"Disable Performance Counters" with a value of "1"

I changed the value to "0" and rebooted. Now the MBM CPU Usage works as does my Norton Utilities CPU Usage meter which didn't work either until I applied the same change. Strange though that the Task Manager still reported the CPU usage.

My theory, since this happened once before and was corrected after a rebuild of this system, is that an application I had used in the past from Cool Beans (System Info and/or CPU Meter) applies that registry entry but doesn't change it back after it's been uninstalled.

Hope that helps!
Bill

My OS slows down to a crawl

In this case the CPU usage code also seems to be the cause, don't run MBM with a to low interval (lower then 5 is a waste of resources), if this does not solve it then turn the CPU usage code off

How do I overclock my PC ?

The 2nd most asked question, and the answer can be found at http://www.athlonoc.com/ochowto1.htm who have a nice article about this

I want to make a Linux monitor, can you send me some code

Please head over to http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/, they have a great utility for Linux

I have an ABIT BX6-2 and the temps are jumping jumping between 0 and normal

Am not yet sure why, but if you UN-check the box on the advanced tab to have the SMBUS detected first this seems to be fixed

How do I save my custom settings so that if I need to install clean I don't have to set the program up again for my needs

Simply save the files MBM 5.ini and MBM 5 Dashboard.ini which are located in the data directory

I wanne control the speed of my Fan, when will you implement this into MBM ?

Never, the mails I get when there is even a small bug that might cause a lockup or something else, made clear to me that I am not gonne burn my fingers on something that will control a CPU fan. However there are a few good programs around, once of them can be found at http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

The settings screen flashes and reacts really strange

If your running WindowsBlinds then disable the scroll bar for the MBM5.exe application in WindowsBlinds.