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Speedfan and Bad Axe 2

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Syl66

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Has anybody been able to get Speedfan to work properly on a Bad Axe 2. I just got this board but when I run Speedfan it doesn't display any readings. No voltage readings, no fan readings, no temp readings, and it didn't detect my HD. I tried the 4.32 beta 8 but all it did was get it to detect both core temps and the hard drive and that was it. No voltage readings, no fan readings. Is this board just not supported or is there something I am missing?
 
I had the same problem when running the BadAxe2, even the newest Beta version of Speedfan wouldn't show any fan or voltage info. Also Speedfan (and most other temp monitoring programs) were causing my vCore to drop back down to the 1.2v range when they would poll for the Core 2 temps. If I was overclocking/upping the vcore it would crash the system when the voltage fell. Not sure if my mobo is defective or if all the BadAxe 2's behave this way. This was a really bad thing on an overclocked system!!
 
All Badaxe2 and the regular Badaxes do this. The only reliable voltage reading utility for these boards is Intel's own desktop utilities. Everest, Speedfan and some verisions of CPU-Z would reset vcore down to default. Moreover, on the Badaxe it also caused vcore changes in the BIOS to stop responding until you cleared it.
 
And thus the Bad Axe 2 is going bye bye, too bad really because it was a good (not great) board. I can't have my otherwise stable overclocked system crash because a program decides to poll for my cpu temp!!! I physically hooked up my voltmeter to the cpu vCore feed to watch what was going on and you're right, when the app would poll and the vCore drops out about the only way I could get it to come back up was to power down the system and cycle the power switch on the supply. Talk about a bad design for a "extreme" desktop board geared towards enthusiasts!!
 
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