S.M.A.R.T. dont work on Vista

Adam,

I'm taking a wild guess that you have a motherboard based on an nVidia
chipset. The nVidia chipset drivers for Vista, to date, have SMART
disabled. There has been no ETA from nVidia as to when this
functionality will be restored to the drivers.

JB

Adam Szewczak wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On my Vista Home Premium i think that smart doesnt work.
>
> HDD Temp take info that there is no SMART drive :/
> PC Wizard doest wark at all.
>
> Hmm is there any help, info, update ?
>
> Thanks
> Adam

JB,

I believe, the Nvidia 15.08 chipset drivers have SMART enabled. I have them
installed for my NForce4 motherboard, and I have a SMART configuration option
in the Nvidia Control Panel.

"jabloomf1230" wrote:

> Adam,
>
> I'm taking a wild guess that you have a motherboard based on an nVidia
> chipset. The nVidia chipset drivers for Vista, to date, have SMART
> disabled. There has been no ETA from nVidia as to when this
> functionality will be restored to the drivers.
>
> JB
>
> Adam Szewczak wrote:

> > Hello.
> >
> > On my Vista Home Premium i think that smart doesnt work.
> >
> > HDD Temp take info that there is no SMART drive :/
> > PC Wizard doest wark at all.
> >
> > Hmm is there any help, info, update ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Adam

>

For what it's worth, Google have done a study of literally thousands of hard
disks (in their own servers) and found no correlation between SMART error
reports and actual disk failures.

It's probably not worth worrying about. Just make sure you've got a good
backup regime.

SteveT

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:37:40 +0100, "Adam Szewczak"
<horses@usuñ.poczta.onet.pl> wrote:

>Hello.
>
>On my Vista Home Premium i think that smart doesnt work.
>
>HDD Temp take info that there is no SMART drive :/
>PC Wizard doest wark at all.
>
>Hmm is there any help, info, update ?
>
>Thanks
>Adam

If you are using an nVidia motherboard and/or chipset, with SATA
drives, then SMART is not supported being that this chipset recognizes
SATA drives as SCSI devices, which do not support SMART.

On nVidia's site, they do propose a work around... for use at your own
risk.

______________________

The Traveller
Oceanside, California

That's what I thought too , you just solidified it in my mind.
Thanks, Sid

"The Traveller" wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:37:40 +0100, "Adam Szewczak"
> <horses@usuñ.poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>

> >Hello.
> >
> >On my Vista Home Premium i think that smart doesnt work.
> >
> >HDD Temp take info that there is no SMART drive :/
> >PC Wizard doest wark at all.
> >
> >Hmm is there any help, info, update ?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Adam

>
> If you are using an nVidia motherboard and/or chipset, with SATA
> drives, then SMART is not supported being that this chipset recognizes
> SATA drives as SCSI devices, which do not support SMART.
>
> On nVidia's site, they do propose a work around... for use at your own
> risk.
>
> ______________________
>
> The Traveller
> Oceanside, California
>