Introduction:
Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chip on your motherboard in your Windows system tray or on your LCD or VFD via LCDC. MBM will display power supply voltages, CPU voltage, CPU speed and utilization, CPU temperature, system temperature and more. LCDC uses this program to gather information to display on your LCD or VFD. MBM supports a wide range of motherboards and sensors with ongoing development. For a complete list of current motherboards supported in version 5.2.0.0 please look at the end of this page. Please note, Matrix Orbital did not write this program so we can only provide limited support for this software, but we will do our best. MBM support can be reached via forum at http://livewiredev.com/bbs/forumdisplay ... &forumid=3 or by e-mail mbm@livewiredev.com
Installation
MBM is located right here:
http://www.matrixorbital.com/forum_imgs/MBM/MBM5200.exe
It can also be downloaded from the Motherboard Monitors website at http://mbm.livewiredev.com. To install MBM run the setup file and follow the instructions. The installation may require a reboot.
Once installed, start the program, which will be located in the MBM folder in the Programs section of the Start Menu. You should now have MBM running on your screen and in your system tray. Once inside the program you should be located under General and the basic setup screen. There, select your options like whether or not you would like MBM to start with Windows and your temperature scale preference.
Now go down to your system tray and right click on the MBM icon (it looks like a little microchip) and click on dashboard.
You should see a number of gauges named Sensor, Core, Fan and CPU. Go back to the MBM configuration screen and on the left select temperatures. In this screen we will select your sensor that MBM send its information to. You should have Sensor 1 selected and then click on the dropdown box right bellow it.
The test system use the Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard, which uses the Via686B chipset for its information and my configuration, is as follows:
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Sensor 1 Via686B-1 Case Temp
Sensor 2 Via686B-2 CPU Temp
Sensor 3 Via686B-3 Northbridge Temp 
Depending on your motherboard, you may have more or less Sensors the in this example. The best thing to do is experiment and play until you understand. Normally, the hottest Sensor will be your CPU, followed by your Power Supply and then by the Case temperature. You can set other MBM options, like alarms if the CPU gets too hot (example if you CPU fan fails) and shut down options.
Now proceed to Voltages and play with those Sensors and Voltage Configuration if in your Dashboard you don't have any reading. As we can see from the example, the Voltages worked by default.
Going onto Fans we will select the RPM readings from various fans inside the case, like CPU or Case fans. From the Dashboard example we see there are no Fan readings coming back from the sensors. We select Fan 1 and then go into the dropdown box to select the sensor we want to read from.
Since the system here has one case fan located in the front of the case we select the Fan 2 sensor and the Via686B-2 sensor next.
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Fan 1 Via686B-1 CPU Fan
Fan 2 Via686B-2 Case Fan 
Now you can see that both of the fans inside the computer are seen and are reporting their RPM. From this setup screen you can also configure more alarms for MBM.
Now click on the CPU section. About half way down the menu you will see a check box for Enable CPU Usage. Check it and that's it. You can continue on looking at some of the other options and configure then, like logs or e-mailing you if something goes wrong. But for the setup for the display and LCDC is done. You can learn more about MBM setup and add-ons by visiting the MBM website and the forum.
Support
Matrix Orbital forum: http://www.lcdforums.com
MBM Forum: http://livewiredev.com/bbs/forumdisplay ... &forumid=3
