support for dell optiplex 745

[ticket]

I followed the (almost 1-year old) discussion in the thread:  http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-December/thread.html#22192 where it was concluded that there was no support for the chip that's inside the optiplex 745.

I have another identical machine with Windows XP installed on it. Until recently, Speedfan would not recognize any of the CPU temperature sensors as well (v4.34). Today, I installed speedfan v4.36 and I can see the CPU readings on the dual-core CPU.

Here is a cut-and-paste from the "info" window of speedfan.

Win9x:NO  64Bit:NO  GiveIO:YES  SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked Intel 82801HB ICH8 SMBUS at $ECE0
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
SuperIO Chip=SCH5514
Scanning Intel SMBus at $ECE0...
Address $30 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
Address $32 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
SMART Enabled for drive 0
Found ST3250820AS (250.0GB)
Found Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
End of detection

Hope this helps. Anything else I can do?

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Replying to ticket:

I have another identical machine with Windows XP installed on it. Until recently, Speedfan would not recognize any of the CPU temperature sensors as well (v4.34). Today, I installed speedfan v4.36 and I can see the CPU readings on the dual-core CPU.

Scratch the comment about difference between 4.34 and 4.36 of speedfan. Both behave identically, i.e., I see Core0 and Core1.

[khali]

Core0 and Core1 are probably the temperatures read from the Intel Core CPU directly. We have the coretemp driver for that. So, as far as I can see, SpeedFan doesn't do anything more.

Now you may want to read this:

 http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-November/024653.html

Maybe we will have support for the SCH5514 Super-I/O chip soon.

[ticket]

Replying to khali:

Core0 and Core1 are probably the temperatures read from the Intel Core CPU directly. We have the coretemp driver for that. So, as far as I can see, SpeedFan doesn't do anything more. Now you may want to read this:  http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-November/024653.html Maybe we will have support for the SCH5514 Super-I/O chip soon.

Excellent. I obviously have access to an Optiplex 745 and am willing to volunteer, but I'm not subscribed to the lm-sensors mailing list. Could you pass on the word?