Actually you can talk to the hardware directly (if you know how). The
hardware BIOS has to support the appropriate command set to allow you to
interrogate the temperature.
Joe
"Robert Moir" <robspamtrap@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Is there a way to monitor your hard drive temperatures in Vista without
>> third
>> party software?
>
> No. It's simply not possible. The ability to monitor hardware components
> depends on the hardware manufacturers writing drivers and making software
> available that both expose this data to the system. And it's very specific
> to what hardware you're using so there isn't really anything in Vista
> itself that I'm aware of (and if there was, it would simply be using the
> data exposed by drivers, for reasons I've already covered).
>
>> Has anyone found third party software that will work with Vista to
>> monitor
>> hard drive temperatures?
>
> Sure. http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
> Again, it assumes the data is made available by the drivers your hardware
> manufacturer provide.
>