What´s New in version 4.29:
- Updated GTX 600 series voltage reporting, the [GPU Info] panel layout and overclocked nVidia GPUs.
- Added reporting of nVidia GPU Performance Decrease reasons.
- Display GPU fan speed RPM and percentage when both are available.
- Updated [BOINC Status] to show when Network Activity is allowed and if not to defer Auto Retry. Added a facility to set GPU tasks to run at Above Normal priority.
- Added Nuvoton NCT6779D sensor support.
- Fixed [GPU CUDA] for elderly 258.96 drivers.
- Resolved an [ACPI Eval] timeout issue with '\EC0_\WEOF' on the ASUS U36SD.
What´s New in version 4.28:
- Added Intel Ivy Bridge Processor and 7 Series Chipset Support. Improved Intel X79 and added C600 chipset support.
- Added GPU percent load summary, nVidia GTX 680 power support, updated clock speed reporting and CUDA Peak GFLOPS calculations.
- Added the [HID Bus] and [PMB Bus] panels. Improved APC USB/HID UPS support and reporting.
- Added Gigabyte Z77 and X79 motherboard support including the reporting of the PMBus based Digital Power Controllers.
- Added Menu->File->Save Public to generate save files with private information excluded.
- Added the -PATH='[;]' qualifier which can be used to specify the folders of a BOINC instance.
- Updated Intel DX58SO motherboard for ADT7490 sensors being used rather than aSC7621 on later board revisions.
- Fixed Wine '1.4' recognition issue.
What's New in version 4.27:
- Windows 8 Prerelease V6.02 Build 8250 support validated, driver ACPI operations enabled and Thermal Zones fixed.
- Added the [CPU Benchmark] page. Added initial AMD A10 APU (Trinity) support.
- Added the [RDP Sessions] page. Added APC UPS HID support to the [Battery] page.
- Added cached WU summary to the [BOINC Status] panel and the -BOINC=HIDE qualifier.
- Updated [Remove SIV] to include any [SIV Autorun] entry. Added the select [Clipboard Viewer] panel.
- Updated the Romanian and Turkish translations. Resolved issue running under Wine when the SMBIOS/DMI data is outside the usual 128KB area.
What´s new in version 4.26:
- Improved AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core (Zambezi) speed reporting and fixed an issue with the [MCH] page.
- Added the nVidia [GPU CUDA] reporting page, current nVidia GPU Frame Buffer usage and the [Dummy DVI] page.
- Added nVidia MCP61, MCP65, MCP67/68, MCP73, MCP77/78, MCP79/7A and MCP7B temperature reporting.
- Added the [BOINC Status] page which lists BOINC processes and GPU Memory Use or Temperatures. Including an option to set the CPU Affinity for Idle Priority Class BOINC clients. On a system with HyperThreading different cores will be used when possible.
- Added the monitoring of Battery or UPS current voltage, charge level and the estimated time remaining.
- Added a [SIV Autorun] on login setup facility.
- Updated Bulgarian and Portuguese translations
What´s new in version 4.25:
- Added the [GPU SLI] to report nVidia SLI Topologies and [GPU Crossfire] to report AMD Crossfire.
- Added Fintek F71808A and Tyan S8812 DIMM SPD MUX support.
- Resolved AMD Phenom Core Temperature updating issue.
- Renamed SIV.exe to SIV32L.exe to signify 32-bit Legacy.
What's New in version 4.24:
- Added the [Memory Speed] panel which reports the memory speed for each CPU accessing memory from each NUMA Node.
- Added initial Intel Atom N2800 (Cedarview) support.
- Added BIOS [MPS], ACPI [SLIT], [SRAT] reports and include physical 0x0E0000 in .DMI files.
- Added support for the AMD-8111 chipset SMBus and the ADM1026 Thermal Controller as used on RIOWORKS HDAMA motherboards.
What's New in version 4.23:
- Added reporting of Windows [Power Scheme], [Network Profiles] and resolved Windows 8 [ACPI HAL] BSOD issue.
- Added AMD A-Series (Llano) processor support.
- Added DIMM SPD XMP V1.3 SPD reporting and SPD panel tool tips.
- Added [GPU I2C] panel for both AMD/ATI and nVidia GPUs. Added nVidia fan speed as percentage reporting.
- When possible report the Disk Rotation Speed, Cache State and Cache Size. Fixed Initio USB SMART support.
What's New in version 4.22:
- Added support for SMART and temperature reporting on all USB-to-SATA Bridges that support SCSIOP_ATA_PASSTHROUGH12 plus most Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus based bridges. Improved all SATA/PATA SMART attribute and SCSI LOG SENSE reporting.
- Added reporting of Windows CE device information.
- Added nVidia MCP73 Chipset SMBus and Memory Timings support.
What's New in version 4.21:
- Added initial support for the Intel X79 chipset, Core i7 and Xeon (Sandy Bridge-EP) processors.
- Added initial AMD FX (Zambezi), Opteron (Valencia) and Opteron (Interlagos) support.
- Added SCSI Disk Drive temperature reporting and improved eSATA hot-plug support by processing WM_DEVICECHANGE messages.
- Added [SPD Save] (Menu->File->Save DIMM SPD) which saves the DIMM SPD information as binary files.
- Added VIA Nano X3 support. Resolved timing issue with VIA VX900 and VT8261 SMBus access.
What´s New in version 4.20:
- Added VIA QuadCore processor support, VX900 Chipset Memory Speed reporting and SMBus support.
- Added nVidia MCP89 Chipset Memory Speed and SMBus support.
- Updated Intel 5000, 5100, 5400, 7300 and E8500 chipset SMBus support. Added Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB) reporting.
- Added ACPI XPSS method decode and use as the CPU power level.
What's New in version 4.19:
- Enhanced the [Network] panels to work Asynchronously such that after two seconds if some systems have not responded the panel will popup and SIV will update the panel as information becomes available. The two second timeout starts once SIV has the list of computers which usually does not take very long. Added the -ASYNC and -NOASYNC options to enable and disable asynchronous operation. Note that for save files the [Network] information is always synchronous. Added Tool Tips to the [Network] pages for the thread counts, delay times and to show wide text.
- Added Tool Tips to the large network screen navigation buttons and changed to have one button for each screen rather than as many buttons as there is space for.
- Enhanced the [Filter] panel to show the total systems for each version of Windows.
- Resolved a thread rundown issue which was triggered by changing the Font or Language. Usually SIV would gain 4 extra threads and intermittently this also caused an application fault.
- Improved the support of nVidia nForce SMBus Controllers.
- Resolved an issue with SIVDRIVER and reduced the number of 'fixme' reports when using Wine.
- Updated [USB Bus] to support systems with more than 10 Root Hub Controllers and allow for unexpected names such as HCD: rather than HCDA.
- Resolved issue with SIV64X.exe V4.18 on AMD systems that was caused by a C compiler bug!
What's New in version 4.17:
- Changed the packaging such that siv.zip includes SIV64X.exe and SIV32X.exe instead of SIV.exe. It now contains all the files needed for most systems. Added siv32l.zip which is a 32-bit SIV ASCII add-on that is needed for the legacy Windows 2000, NT4 and 9X systems. Removed siv32x.zip and siv64x.zip.
- Added Power Usage reporting of the Intel Core i3/i5/i7 (Sandy Bridge) processor package.
- Added the [Latest Releases] panel which can be used to check the latest Current and Beta releases of SIV. It will usually also display the latest changes in the Beta release. Added the ability to check for new SIV releases at regular intervals. The default is once per week.
- Added display of the Internet Access state, explicit HTTP Proxy support and also added the -proxy=(address):(port) command qualifier.
- Enhanced the [My IP Address] panel to operate asynchronously, updated to use http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3 and added the facility to use an alternate key for the server lookups.
- Enhanced the CPU Utilisation updating such that when SIV is waiting for the SMBus lock the CPU information continues to be updated and an informational message displayed that Sensor updates are stalled. This will not happen unless another program is holding the SMBus lock for an excessive time.
- Enhanced the sensor Tool Tips to show the Description, Current, Average, Minimum and Maximum values. Changed the memory/page file tool tips to display the size and the cache tool tips to be multi-line.
- Improved the integration with ASUS ATK and Intel QST sensors. Added support for the Supermicro X7DCA. Resolved an issue on the ASUS M3N-HT motherboard.
What´s new in version 4.16:
- Added support for the Intel Core i3/i5/i7 (Sandy Bridge) processors, B65, H61, H65, HM65, H67, HM67, P65, PM65, P67, Q67, QM67, QS67, UM67, Z68, C202, C204 and C206 chipsets.
- Added support for the ITE IT8728 and IT8772 Super I/O LPC controllers.
- Updated support for the AMD Opteron 6100 (Magny-Cours) series processors. Added support for the SR5690, SR5670, SR5650 and SP5100 chipsets.
- Updated support for the DM&P Vortex86 DX / MX SoC CPUs.
- Updated the [USB Bus] page to report the DeviceHubNestedTooDeeply, DeviceInLegacyHub, DeviceEnumerating and DeviceReset states.
What´s New in version 4.15:
- Added reporting of Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID Sets and Drives including disk temperature reporting.
- Added support for the On Semiconductor ASP0800 power controller to report the CPU Voltage, Current and Power usage. Added all three to the H/W Status panel and display of the Power on the initial screen.
- Added real-time DIMM Temperature reporting for Crucial Ballistix Finned DDR3 Memory Modules with Thermal Sensors.
- Added support for the VIA Nano Dual-Core processor and also for the Intel HM55 chipset.
What´s New in version 4.14:
- Added use of the ACPI _PSS method to evaluate and show the current CPU power levels. This works on many Core 2 and a few Pentium 4 systems.
- Added the -NOSIVREG command line qualifier to tell SIV not to save information in the Windows Registry. When SIV is run from a DVD/CD or Removable Drive (USB Flash Drive) that is not the system drive the default is -NOSIVREG.
- Added CPU Core, Disk Drive and Thermal Zone information to the -MONITOR mode logging file. Changed the format to be the same as for -TAG information.
- Added -ENVLOG= and -EXCEL= to enable environment information logging and set the logging interval. The -EXCEL files are designed for viewing with Excel and similar. Added -MONLOG= to set -MONITOR mode and the logging interval.
- Added the [ASUS Info] page which to shows the ACPI\ATK0110 sensor information.
- Added support for ACPI Method Evaluations and the [ACPI Eval] page which shows these. If there is an issue with the ACPI method evaluation then the command:
siv -dbghal -save=[initial][acpi-hal][acpi-eval]=acpi.txt > acpi.log | more should be used to find and then report the ACPI method causing the issue.
What's New in version 4.13:
- Added support for Intel Core i5 M400 (Arrandale) series and the HM57 chipset.
- Added support for Intel QST and the [QST Status] page to show detailed QST information.
- Added the [Ping Network] page to allow a specified range of IP Addresses to be pinged. With the 32-bit builds SIV will use up to 64 worker threads and achieves a rate of around 120 per second for 256 or more pings. The 64-bit builds will use up to 512 worker threads which for 2,048 or more pings at 1,000 per second. To specify sparse addresses use ranges such as 10.0.16.0 to 10.7.19.255 which will ping 8,160 ( 8 x 4 x 255 ) IP addresses. The worker threads are set to have different Ideal Processors and are distributed to multiple CPU Groups.
What´s New in version 4.12:
- Added the [Sectors] page to display Disk Drive Physical and Logical sector information. Updated [Geometry] and [Partitions] to include drive serial numbers.
- Added support for ATI SB8x0 SMBus controllers and the ITE IT8721F LPC controller.
- Updated the [H/W Status] page to include environmental information from the motherboard LPC and SMBus sensors. Added support for most temperature scales.
- Added the [Direct X] page to display the Direct X versions that are installed.
- Updated the [Cache Latency] page to show a progress bar. The latency is now measured using a worker thread, so the CPU Utilisation plots, CPU Speeds and Environmental information will continue to be updated. I have also changed the [Sensors], [SMART] and [Volumes] pages to use worker threads for updates.
- Added the [SMBus Locks] page which shows the locking Mutex names and which namespace they exist in.
- Added support for the Compaq W8000 SMBus multiplexor to facilitate the reporting of RIMM SPD information.
- Added reporting of SMBus environmental sensors for ASUS A7V, NCT-D, P4T533, Compaq W8000, W6000, Dell 530, 610, HP xw8000, Intel BS460GX, DX58SO, MS440GX, MSI MS-6135 and Tyan S3992 systems. Added generic support for the SMSC LPC47M192.
What´s New in version 4.11:
- Added support for the Intel H55, QM57, VIA VX800, VT8251 and nVidia MCP65 chipsets.
- Added reporting on nVidia GPU Voltages, updated the GPU Speed and Utilisation support for elderly VGA cards and drivers.
- Corrected the VIA Nano CPU speed and temperature reporting. Improved the VIA MSR reporting. Updated to use the new VIA logos.
- Updated the [My IP Address] page to include the location and time zone.
What´s New in version 4.10:
- Updated support for Intel Core i3 500 (Clarkdale), Core i7 800 (Clarksfield), Pentium SU4000 (Penryn) and Celeron SU2000 (Penryn) series processors.
- Added support for the Intel H57, E7500 and E7501 chipsets.
- Added reporting of GPU Speeds and Utilisation to the Initial screen and updated [H/W Status] to also include this information.
- Added -NOGPUS to disable GPU information, -GPUS=n to set the number to display and updated [About] to include -GPUS. This reporting uses either ADL or NVAPI, so you need to have a supported graphics card and you may need to update to the latest driver release to for the GPU Utilisation.
- Added the [GPU Info] panel shows the raw GPU information that is returned to SIV.
- Updated [USB Bus] to indicate the bus hierarchy.
- Corrected the [Wi-Fi] page's reporting of 802.11n Radios.
- Fixed Thermal Zone reporting for 32-bit Windows Vista.
- Added the [CLSID] page which lists all the CLSIDs which have a shell command association.
- Added support for the PCA9544 SMBus multiplexor on the Tyan S3992 motherboard. This allows the DIMM SPD information and all the [SMB Bus] devices to be reported.
What's New in version 4.09:
- Added support for the Intel Core i3 M300 / i5 M500 (Arrandale) series and Core i7 Extreme X940 (Clarksfield) processors.
- Added support to report the nVidia MCP7A-ION chipset memory timings. Updated the [PCI Bus] page to use direct PCI access to read the MCP7A-ION Memory Controllers. Added the -DIRECT qualifier which can be used to find devices which are hidden from the Windows HAL.
- Added the [Thermal Zones] page to display ACPI Thermal Zone information, modified the [Initial] and [H/W Status] pages to include ACPI Thermal Zone temperatures.
- Added the [Audio] page which provides a summary of Audio Devices and Codecs.
- Updated the [PCI Bus] page to display the Negotiated and Maximum PCI Express Lanes.
- Added the [ACPI HAL] page which lists all the nodes in the ACPI HAL tree for Windows 2000 and later ACPI compliant systems. Added the -NOACPI startup qualifier to disable use of [ACPI HAL] and updated [About] to display the -ACPI state.
- Added the Configuration panel (Menu->Tools->Configuration) can be used to set the -SCSI and -DELL modes of operation.
- Changed the SPD Summary to display the SMBus location and added reporting of the Supermicro X8DA3 motherboard DIMM SPD information.
- Added support for the Intel 840 chipset and updated the Intel 850, 850E and 860 chipset reporting.
What's New in version 4.08:
- Added initial support for the Intel Atom Z600 (Tunnel Creek) processor and updated the Intel Core 2 E7000 (Wolfdale) series, AMD Phenom II X6 (Thuban), Phenom II X4 (Zosma) and Athlon 64 X2 3250e (Brisbane) processor support.
- Added reporting of the current memory Row Cycle Time (tRC). Added Averages and Disk Drives to the [H/W Status] page.
- Enhanced the [Lookup] page to automatically check for updated definition files and added the [WEB UPD] button which will download the updated versions of any out-of-date definition files. Added all of the Unicode and 64-bit add-on .ZIP files to Menu->File->Download.
- Added the [PNP Devices] panel for both the local and remote systems and created pnpdevs.txt to contain the PNP Device ID definitions.
- Added the [PCI BARs] panel which lists all the PCI BAR addresses used by all the PCI devices. Looking at this panel you can tell which PCI device is limiting the memory used by 32-bit Windows systems which have 4GB of physical memory.
- Added support for the SiS 746, 735 and 964 chipsets to report the MCH Memory Timing information and to implement SMBus access.
- Added support for the VIA P4M890 Chipset and VT8237A SMBus controller.
- Added the [SMBus Setup] page which can be used to change the SMBus Scan Range and exclude specific slave addresses.
- Added support for -TAGS=SPD, the information reported is basically the same as [SPD Summary].
- Corrected the fan speed reporting for the ITE IT8720F and IT8718F LPC I/O sensor chips.
- Fixed the reporting of USB String Descriptors which would cause an application fault either interactively for the USB Device details page or when processing the [usb-all] section of a save operation.
- Resolved an intermittent application fault when running for prolonged periods on some AMD Phenom, Athlon and Sempron processors.
- Corrected the operation of [Domains] which could sometimes trigger an application fault if some third party network sharing products such as LogMeIn or Humyo WebDav are being used.
What's New in version 4.07:
- Added support for the EVGA W555, Intel S5500, Compaq W6000 and ASUS A7V SMBus multiplexors to facilitate the reporting of DIMM SPD information.
- Added the [Chipsets] page which will display the chipset of all the systems on the network.
- Updated the [Volumes] page to display sizes in MB, GB, TB or PB as appropriate and added a percentage used column
- Added reporting of FB-DIMM temperatures for systems with the Intel 5000, 5400 and 7300 series of chipsets.
- Renamed [MSR Core] to [H/W Status] and added the display of FB-DIMM temperatures.
- Added support for the nVidia nForce 790i chipset MCH Memory Timing and several nVidia SMBus controllers.
- Added support for the ATI A3/U1 S2K chipset MCH Memory Timing and the Ali M7101 SMBus controller.
- Added reporting of LPC GPIO configurations and enabled DIMM SPD reporting for the Tyan S2668 Dual-Xeon motherboard.
- The Windows System information button, [System], has been renamed to [Windows] to reflect the Split Button / Right/Click menu being the Windows sub-menu. To maintain compatibility the save file section is still [system].
What's New in version 4.06:
- Added SMBus support to the SIV driver and implemented the [SMB Bus] panel which will show all the SMBus Slave Devices on the system. By default the range 0x06 to 0x5F is searched, to change this use the [Tune] panel to update the SMBus Base and SMBus Limit SIV registry entries.
- Added the [SPD Details] and [SPD Summary] panels which report the SPD information for the system DIMMs. Added [ SPD ] to the initial screen as to replace [SMART] which is available via the colour blob.
- Added Memory Timing reporting for the Intel 5000, 5400 and 7300 chipsets by reading the current values from the AMBs (Advanced Memory Buffers).
- Added support for the AMD Phenom II X6 (Thuban) and Phenom II X4 (Zosma) Processors.
- Added PCIe support for the VIA P4M900, VX800 and VN1000 chipsets.
- Added the [System Metrics] page which displays the current System Metric information.
- Added the [MSR Core] page which displays the per core MSR derived sensor information. Added support for motherboards with multiple LPC I/O Sensors such as the EVGA W555. Use Nuvoton after the Winbond spin off.
- Enhanced USB 3.0 support to report Super as a device speed and decode Endpoint Companion descriptors.
- Resolved the issue of SIV, by default, only using 20 lines on some systems and added -NOSAME to disable same-as-before suppression.
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