Iwill Xa100plus mobo (Examined/Solved - n/a)

[contact]

Perhaps this is not quite the correct forum to discuss this, but I have

decided to use every resource at my disposal.

I have a number of Iwill Xa100plus motherboards, which use the Aladdin V

chipset. I have been unable to access the 7101 (?) device necessary for

hardware monitoring.

After a thorough search of the BIOS options, I e-mailed Iwill tech support,

whom repied to the effect that the board does not have the necessary components

for hardware monitoring.

Does this mean I cannot monitor my 3dfx card? Or am I correct in my

understanding that the ALi SMBus is for the board hardware monitoring chips, and

the 3dfx SMBus stands alone?

I also have some doubts as to whehter or not the reply I recieved from tech

support was correct. The ALi chipset has the SMBus, so is there anything there

to access? Has anyone had any experience with these boards, successful or

otherwise?

Should I read the docs more thouroghly? I'm not sure I understand the

relations of all the devices to one another, but the docs haven't helped much.

In any case, the ALi section of the buses documentation on this site lists

the Iwill Xa100plus as a board with a Aladdin V chipset. While this is true, if

it is unusable, this note might want to be changed or omitted.

Thank you for any help.

Joseph Fannin

--- Never heard of this motherboard before.

You only need the Ali SMBus if you have things you want

to look at on that bus. But you will need the 7101 device

enabled to use it. If that device is not listed in lspci

then you must have it enabled in the BIOS or you are out of luck.

However, you may have sensor devices on the ISA bus.

Then you don't need the Ali.

The 3dfx SMBus definitely stands alone. But it is not likely

to have sensor chips on it.

Your best bet is to look carefully at the motherboard for

chips that might be sensor chips and compare them to the list

of chips we support listed in our README file.

Follow up by sending mail to sensors@…

and referencing ticket #311.

MDS 4/14/00

---

Please try the new m7101 module referenced on our

home page and let us know how it works.

MDS 6/21/00