Settings - General - Advanced

Enable FIC-SD11 Support (you need to restart MBM for this to take effect, and use it at your own risk since it can be dangerous)

If you have a FIC SD11 motherboard then you might need to use this option to force the sensor chip to work. You use this option totally at your own risk, and if you don't have a FIC SD11 board then DO NOT USE IT

Enable RAS support. (This can give an error on Windows NT/2000 machine that have no dial-up adapter installed)

If you want to use the e-mail SMTP option and also use the RAS (dial-up adapter) option then you need to check this box, by default it is not checked to avoid problems for some users who have no RAS installed

Detect SMBus before detecting primary sensor chip (MBM needs to be closed and restarted if you change this, and this should normally be always turned on)

UN-Check this box if you want MBM to 1st detect your sensor chip and then the SMBUS, this will mean that it will/can only detect ISA based sensor chips as the primary sensor chip, if MBM 5 works okay then leave this box checked, if MBM confuses a SMBus based sensor chip for an ISA one then this might be an option

ALi Southbridge (this device cannot always be detected correctly; if you feel MBM is wrong select the option you want)

The Ali Southbridges (1535D, 1515D+, 1533, 1543 and 1543C) can be placed in rougly 2 groups, the 1535D and 1535D+ in 1 group and the other 3 in the 2nd group. The problem with these 5 devices is that they all have the same Device ID, so it's not always 100% clear which one is which. For this reason you can override the MBM selection, if you feel MBM is wrong then simply select what you think is correct.

Do not reset sensor chip on startup of MBM

Default MBM resets the sensor chip when it starts up, this might give a problem with your bios (PC begins to beep). IF this happens then just turn the reset off

When opening the Dashboard, calculate its position to be within the screen border

Default MBM checks the dashboards position to be within the desktop, so not smaller then 0 and not bigger then you resolution width and height. If however you are running dual monitor setup then you might want to turn this off

Force Bank0 Switch

This switch is used to force the bank of a sensor chip on the smbus to 0, you should not use this if you don't know what your doing and if your board is not in the below list. If a sensor chip's bank is not set to 0 then mbm can not detect it, so with this you might fix a wrong detection issue.

Once you set this switch you need to restart MBM to get it working

Board/PC	Value 1	Value 2	Value 3
HP Pavilion (bios version 2.06)	$2D	$4E	$00
Thunder K7	$2D	$4E	$00

To enable password protection of your settings, enter a password 2 times, and clear the 2 boxes to disable

Entering you password 2 times here will make it that people who don't know the password can not get to the settings, remember this is no big 128-bit encryption, just to keep your "normal" user out of the settings

Enable $2E and $4E scanning

When you turn on this switch, MBM will scan on the $2E and $4E bus for devices, this might cause a crash of your system if you have no device there. This seems to happen more on older systems then new systems

Intel board with a ADM1025 sensor chip often have a fan sensor on these ports, so to get them you need to turn this on

a safe way to enable this switch (if you are not sure) is

: turn off the mbm start with windows, turn on the switch, press apply, close mbm and start mbm again

if you get a crash then simply open the mbm 5.ini file and change Scan 2E 4E=1 to Scan 2E 4E=0

Force ISA to SMB (restart MBM after selecting or changing this, and use only when advised to)

By selecting this option MBM will force a ISA sensor chip onto the SMB, this should only be used if it's stated on the motherboard page on the MBM site