FAQ - MBM

MBM can show 3 sensors but I only get a good reading from 2 (winbond 1 and winbond 2 - P2), when I try the 3rd (winbond 3) I get nothing or some way weird number

You might need to buy or create a thermal sensor, which you then have to connect to your board, check your board manual for a connector, if there is on then either buy a thermal probe or create one with the help from virtualhideout, who have this site: http://www.virtualhideout.net/guides/thermistor/index.shtml

I have the option to select 1 normal sensor and 1 sensor with the same name but the word diode behind it (for example: Winbond 2 vs Winbond 2 Diode) but I can not select both !!!?? And to make it worse, both show totally diffrent values !!

Some sensor chip support input from either a diode (in the cpu most of the time) or a thermal sensor (normal temp sensor outside the cpu), they don't accept 1 sensor to be both, which makes good sence if you think about it. So that is the reason why you can't select both types from that same temperature chanel on the sensor chip. The fact that both show diffrent values simply is a fact that the value returned from -for example- needs to be manipulated diffrently by the sensor chip then that returned by a thermal sensor. So selecting the wrong sensor type for a temperature chanel will result in a wrong value

SMTP e-mail crashes or simply does not work

9 out of 10 times this is because you didn't enter the correct settings or select the correct authentication, please check with your ISP to be sure you have everything filled in correctly

In MBM 4 I had much more control over the windows true type font that I used to display in the system tray, I want this also in MBM 5

The support in MBM 5 for this feature is limited and will not be extended, you are recommended to use the build in font

I downloaded extra languages but they do not show up

Make sure the languages you downloaded are for the same version of MBM 5 that you are using, each new version of MBM 5 has new features and thus to make sure you get no weird problems this means that old language files do not show up

MBM does not autostart all the time eventhough I have it turned on

Because of some weird reason this seems to happen if you had MBM 4 installed before (or still have) and you had it set to autostart as well. The answer is very simple, turn the autostart of in MBM 4. If you no longer have MBM 4 installed then you can edit the registry (at your own risk) and delete the MBM 4 key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Do I need to uninstall MBM each time before I upgrade

No, simply close MBM and then install over the current installed version, your settings will be kept

I can not select SHDN now in the alarm section for each Sensor

Shutdown now is a program you need to download (http://www.dworld.de/) and install, in some cases MBM might not detect SHDN after it has been installed, if this is the case then simply close MBM, run SHDN once and close it again. Then start MBM. You can see in the MBM system info -at the bottom- if SHDN is detected.