I evaluated HWiNFO sometime back and it looked promising as a startup tool to help diagnose computer hardware issues(if any). But the more I am working with this tool on various hardware platform the more I am getting aware of the limitations of this tool.
Here are some of the examples:
1. I can see the CPU Fan status in my HP Laptop, but the same I am not able to see in HP 420 or HP 820 workstations. 820 comes with cooling pumps but HWiNFO does not recognize it as one of the component.
2. In one instance my HDD interface is SCSI instead of SATA. The tool did not report the HDD at all.
3. system parameter limits are stored in registry instead of config file so it could have been easy to have one setting that can be used across systems, now I have to set the limits on every system in order to highlight the variances.
When can we expect a version that is compatible across major platforms and can provide consistent results?
Here are some of the examples:
1. I can see the CPU Fan status in my HP Laptop, but the same I am not able to see in HP 420 or HP 820 workstations. 820 comes with cooling pumps but HWiNFO does not recognize it as one of the component.
2. In one instance my HDD interface is SCSI instead of SATA. The tool did not report the HDD at all.
3. system parameter limits are stored in registry instead of config file so it could have been easy to have one setting that can be used across systems, now I have to set the limits on every system in order to highlight the variances.
When can we expect a version that is compatible across major platforms and can provide consistent results?