WMI: Win32_Fan, Win32_TemperatureProbe, Win32_VoltageProbe, and Win32_CurrentPro
William Wang
setup was required (such as additonal providers were
needed) to obtain the Win32_Fan, Win32_TemperatureProbe,
Win32_VoltageProbe, and Win32_CurrentProbe instances and
properties? (Assuming all hardware, sensors and firmware
were properly installed, connected and configured.)
I have been able to get the Win32_BaseBoard instance, but
not on the others as listed above.
--William Wang
[MS] Scott McNairy
Sometimes older computers don't report this information through older
versions of SMBios.
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[MS] Scott McNairy
WMI Test Engineer
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"William Wang" <willia...@leitch.com> wrote in message
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William Wang
info do not appear to be in the SMBIOS basd upon the
quotes taken from SMBIOS Table < http://
msdn.microsoft.com/ library/ en-us/ wmeother/ hh/
wmeother/ smbios_55k5.asp >, which item could it be under?
as follows (After the quotes, attached is my computer's
Win32_BIOS instance and properties dump, i.e., supposed to
be current from Intel with ReleaseDate 20010326):
"Windows 98/Me: Windows DDK
SMBIOS Table
A representative list of information residing within
SMBIOS is presented in the following table. This is not an
exhaustive list.
Attr. ID Description Type
DMTF|ComponentID|001
1. Component Id Group MIF Description
1 Manufacturer String
2 Product String
3 Version String
4 Serial Number String
DMTF|System BIOS|001
DMTF|System BIOS|001
4. System BIOS Group MIF Definition
3 Version String
4 BIOS ROM Size Integer
5 BIOS Starting Address INT64
6 BIOS Ending Address INT64
8 BIOS Release Date DATE
DMTF|BIOS Characteristic|003
5. BIOS Characteristic Group Definition
1 BIOS Characteristic Index Integer
2 BIOS Number Integer
3 BIOS Characteristics ENUM
4 BIOS Characteristics Description String
Type
Processor Family ENUM
Processor Upgrade ENUM
Number of Expansion Slots Integer
10. System Cache
1 System Cache Index Integer
3 System Cache Speed Integer
4 System Cache Size Integer
5 System Cache Write Policy ENUM
11. Parallel Ports
5 Connector Type ENUM
6 Connector Pinout ENUM
8 Parallel Port Capabilities Integer
19. System Slots
1 Slot Index Integer
2 Slot Type INT64
3 Slot Width ENUM
4 Current Usage Integer
5 Slot Description String
6 Slot Category ENUM
7 Virtual Slot ENUM
8 Resource User ID Integer
Built on Wednesday, July 24, 2002"
Instance to get: Win32_BIOS.Name="L440GX - PhoenixBIOS 4.0
Release 6.0 ",SoftwareElementID="L440GX - PhoenixBIOS
4.0 Release
6.0 ",SoftwareElementState=3,TargetOperatingSystem=0,Ve
rsion="L440GX+ PhoenixBIOS L440GX+ Production Release 14.3"
BiosCharacteristics (uint16) ==>
BuildNumber (string) ==> <null>
Caption (string) ==> "L440GX - PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release
6.0 "
CodeSet (string) ==> <null>
CurrentLanguage (string) ==> "en|US|iso8859-1"
Description (string) ==> "L440GX - PhoenixBIOS 4.0
Release 6.0 "
IdentificationCode (string) ==> <null>
InstallableLanguages (uint16) ==> 6 (0x6)
InstallDate (datetime) ==> <null>
LanguageEdition (string) ==> <null>
ListOfLanguages (string) ==>
Manufacturer (string) ==> "Intel Corporation"
Name (string)* ==> "L440GX - PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release
6.0 "
OtherTargetOS (string) ==> <null>
PrimaryBIOS (boolean) ==> TRUE
ReleaseDate (datetime) ==> "20010326******.******+***"
SerialNumber (string)
==> " "
SMBIOSBIOSVersion (string)
==> "L440GX0.86B.0133.P14.0103261759 "
SMBIOSMajorVersion (uint16) ==> 2 (0x2)
SMBIOSMinorVersion (uint16) ==> 1 (0x1)
SMBIOSPresent (boolean) ==> TRUE
SoftwareElementID (string)* ==> "L440GX - PhoenixBIOS
4.0 Release 6.0 "
SoftwareElementState (uint16)* ==> 3 (0x3)
Status (string) ==> "OK"
TargetOperatingSystem (uint16)* ==> 0 (0x0)
Version (string)* ==> "L440GX+ PhoenixBIOS L440GX+
Production Release 14.3"
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Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT]
the TemperatureProbe class.
It gives an idea about how to cross check if your SMBIOS implementation
exposes the info.
/////////////////////////////////////
Your system "supports" SMBIOS.
It means that it has a table with values that comply to a certain format.
This table is available in the SMBios data byte array of the
root\wmi:MSSmBios_RawSMBiosTables class.
instance of MSSmBios_RawSMBiosTables
{
Size = 1507;
SMBiosData = {} // a bunch of bytes
}
now you can download the spec for the format of the table from the DMTF web
site,
and parse the table. It will take you 20-30 minutes to do it by hand.
If you find the group information for Type 28,
then your SMBIOS compliant hardware exposes the temperature in a compatible
way.
If not, there is no hope for the "interesting" properties of
Win32_TemperatureProbe
and/or for the ThermalZone class to work.
The degree of errors may sound not logical at first, but that would be a
different long story.
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"William Wang" <willia...@leitch.com> wrote in message
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Dave Methvin
raw BIOS tables and decode them, might save you 20 minutes (per system). It
doesn't seem that a lot of vendors provide the probe functionality via
SMBIOS.
"Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT]" <ivan...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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William Wang
I had downloaded the zip file and got a BIOS.TXT.
For the system at question with SMBios version 2.1, it
only goes from types 0 to 17. Based upon Ivan's statement
since it does not include Type 28, (from www.dmtf.org
DSP0119.pdf I found Voltage Probe (Type 26), Cooling
Device (Type 27), Temperature Probe (Type 28) and
Electrical Current Probe (Type 29)), so I shall
accordingly assume that this SMBios does not support those
probes at question.
--wm
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