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AMD System Monitor

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:50 pm
by Lgringo
Recently installed a Sapphire HD5570, downloaded latest drivers, etc. from AMD. It works fine, is 4% into its first WU. Then I downloaded the AMD System Monitor:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... nitor.aspx
which installed fine as far as I can tell, but when I run it, all I get is a content-free error msg that says: "Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred. Please restart the application. Any ideas? TIA.

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:21 pm
by mdk777
Use the >PERFORMANCE>OVERDRIVE on the Catalyst control panel.
Will give you usage, temp, and allow you to adjust OC and Fan profiles. :mrgreen:

For entire AMD system monitor, AOD is much more robust if your system support it.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/ ... ments.aspx :ewink:

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:44 am
by Lgringo
Thanks! Except for the ATI video card, my system doesn't have anything that AOD requires but I tried it anyway and got err msg "AMD Overdrive failed to start", so I'm assuming that AMD System Monitor has similar requirements, but I hadn't noticed any specs in that department. Curiously, even though I changed the fan speed from the default 40% to 100% it didn't drop the temp from 49 degrees C. (activity = 99%) which is a curiosity to me.

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:52 am
by mdk777
You can try MSI AFTERBURNER or RIVATUNER to double check the temps.

Most likely the HD 5570 is just not that high wattage of a card. (38-43 watts per guru3d)

The cooling solution reaches equalization at 40% fan and adding more air just doesn't change the limit of the the fins.

JMHO. ;)

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:30 am
by Athlonite
If your just after checking temps and GPU usage then use GPU-z and click the sensors tab gives a pretty good reading of all temps clocks and so forth can be set to giv max/avg/min or current reading for all sensor readings

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:51 am
by Jesse_V
I've had good experience using Piriform Speccy. I also have GPU-Z, but I notice it uses too much CPU time, so I don't like to run it. Speccy however uses very little CPU time, but also displays temperatures of CPU, GPU, and Hard Drive, along with a big list of hardware specs. Pretty good GUI; I like it a lot. http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:20 pm
by AMDphreak
None of you have solutions.

This same thing happened to me, after I updated Windows (after Acer wiped my computer).

I found a solution in a Youtube video.

You just need to run a command-line command, and then the program will work right.

LODCTR /R

Type this into the command line and hit Enter. To get to the command line, hit Windows+R (key combination) and then type 'cmd' without the quotes, and hit Enter. Then, you type the command above.

I can't believe it took you guys 5 years and you never found a solution. It took me 5 minutes.

Re: AMD System Monitor

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:50 pm
by 7im
What 5 years? This thread opened 15 months ago.

And other than fix the one problem, do you know what else LODCTR /R does? One shouldn't run commands blindly...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 90926.aspx