Need the sensors working on your hackintosh? With the application HWMonitor you can monitor the health of your system hardware. It’s displays the various stats of your computer components, which makes it a great tool and maybe one of the only monitoring tools available for Hackintoshers.
HWSensors is a version of HWMonitor that can be used on a hackintosh. PC sensors on a hackintosh can a little tricky for some who don’t understand how to get it working and don’t know where to start, but it’s actually very simple.
Why use HWMonitor?
- Temperature: How much heat your CPU Cores, GPU Die, SSD/HDD’s, Thermal Zones are outputting.
- Frequencies: The GHZ your processor and graphics card are running at.
- Speed: Monitor the fanspeeds of your CPU Cooloer, Case Fans & GPU of your CPU, GPU and Case Fans.
- Power: The Voltages being generated right now by your components.
To follow the HWMonitor Guide below you will of course need a working hackintosh and a Clover EFI.
Step 1: Required Files
This covers what files you need and where to place them to detect the hardware sensors.
- Download a version of FakeSMC pack
- Standard: Rehabman-FakeSMC
- Alternative: KGP-X99-FakeSMC
- KGP-X99-FakeSMC Made by KGP for a X99/X299 series motherboard compatibility. I also recommend it for something like Z390 motherboards as it contains more information than the standard Rehabman version.
- Unzip FakeSMC Folder
- Copy the contents of FakeSMC folder
- Mount the EFI Partition of the Boot Drive
- Navigate to EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- Paste the copied files in that location
- Your Other folder must contain these required 5 files as seen in the image below:
- Restart your hackintosh
Step 2: Launching HWMonitor
HWMonitor should have been included on ….
- Download & Unzip HW Monitor for Mac
- If you downloaded Rehabman’s version of FakeSMC it should be in the folder you downloaded
- Place HWMonitor.app in ~/Applications/
- Open HWMonitor thru Spotlight/Launchpad/Applications
- No app will open, but you’ll see an icon at your menu bar
- Clicking on the menu bar icon you’ll get a dropdown list you can also select the graph icon to bring up a seperate window
Step 3: HWMonitor on Startup (Optional)
Do this if you want you to have HWMonitor startup when you turn on your computer so that you don’t have to manually open it every single time. This is an optional step and not required.
- Open Settings
- Go to Users & Groups
- Select Your Account
- Press Login Items
- Press the [+] sign at the bottom
- Navigate to your Applications folder
- Select HWMonitor
- Click Add
- Restart your Hackintosh
Done.
Leave a Reply
36 Comments on "HWMonitor Hackintosh Guide – Monitor Health Sensors: Temperatue, Voltage, Fanspeed"
Thanks, great article.
Hey There. I found your blog using msn. This is a
really well written article. I’ll be sure to bookmark it and
return to read more of your useful info. Thanks for the
post. I’ll definitely comeback.
I did everything as instructed and the HWMonitor only show my SSD temp. (I did removed the GPU sensor kext since I’m using a 1050 GPU) Any suggestion?
http://imgur.com/a/9ASgX
Did you replace FakeSMC.kext with the one in the folder with the rest of the sensor kexts?
Yes I did.
Tried some other sugesstion still no luck. 🙁
I tried multibeast to install the HWMonitor plugins and it worked. 😀 Appear to have to copy the sensor kexts into library/extensions
Great to hear! I take a second look at the EFI folder used in the D3H guide to see if something is preventing the sensors from working properly.
Yeah but it seems the sensor is not working correctly. Take the cpu temp for example. The temp keeps jumping up and down (1 second it’s 40 degree. Another it’s 60) the CPU fan speed seems fine. Any idea?
The only spikes I have is when I do something to cause high usage which spikes the temps until the fans ramp up and lower it. It may have something to do with you using multi beast can you take a screenshot and post it a link?
http://imgur.com/a/rhWBK here I am doing some very light web reading.
Yes there’s definitely something wrong with yours. My i7-7700k which is a hot cpu barely breaks 35C on air cooling while reading.
http://hackintosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/i7-7700k-Idle-hackintosh.png
So I figured out what was causing your issue and that is that the latest version of FakeSMCSensors breaks proper temperature monitoring the solution to this is to use the version uploaded on 4-14-2017 here’s the link RehabMan-FakeSMC-2017-0414.zip
Replace your sensor kexts with the one’s and here and make sure not to use the GPU sensor kext as it can cause a kernel panic.
Worked. Seriously this is like the only modern guide on the web that I could find, thank you!
Hi, does the GPU sensor kext work for RX 480? Thanks!
I’m not getting any readings for my RX 560, however including the kext doesn’t cause a KP like Pascal cards.
Hi, i have all sensor working fine only the fan are not showed , i have a pascal gpu so i followed you guide and remove the kets not supported and used the 0414 .
Thank you for you guide
Can you guys please tell me how far from the HWMonitor readings are your BIOS temps?
I have a solid 32C on all cores while browsing Internet, but when I go to BIOS, I have 52C constantly. Now what is OFF? HWmonitor? I would love to hear the BIOS. Thanks Jakub
The issue is the BIOS misreading temps not the OS. Usually updating your BIOS version to the latest will fix the issue. I noticed this on ASROCK motherboards.
OK, thanks, I will try that. One more question. In my HW monitor CPU CORE voltage is staying at 0,656 and around that – all the time. I have overclocked to 4,8ghz, and when I stress processor, it does not move at all. What could be wrong? I have voltage setup in Bios to 1.32V. Thanks.
Help…
I followed this steps. And it worked exactly as expected. With a side affect. After restarting my hackintosh the drive with my windows partition and the other internal storage drive I have in the PC didn’t automatically mount.
Figured I could mount them using disk utilities but that didn’t work either (they are greyed out). I also tried to reverse what I did by removing the kexts from the other file and still no mounted drives.
I could care less about the windows partition being mounted while running OSX, but I have my two 3TB drives in there to specifically be able to share all my files between operating systems. Any tips and help would be much appreciated.
I’ve had that happen before, you need to use First Aid in disk utility.
So, at this point, is there another alternative to monitoring GPU temperature if you have a NVIDIA GTX 10XX card?
HWMonitor works fine for everything else.
Ah nvm. Found, his newer release; it shows temp just fine, though clock readings are still disabled
thanks
Thanks this was the only post that I found that helped me to get the sensors working on my new build. Thanks again for the post.
thank you for the detailed instruction, works flawlessly so far! i have a question though, is there a way to monitor m2 nvme disc temperature?
The link to HWmonitor app doesn’t work
I have also faced this problem. Luckily, the app comes in a package with FakeSMC kexts.
why are fans on a constant rpm ? shouldn’t it adjust itself to temp ?
ok just figured out via terminal stress test that the fans are go fast and slow with temp. but 2 of them are way to high . how can I limit them ? when I try to limit them with hwmonitor I always act that User Login prompt frequently and need to delete the config.xml of hwmonitor and that reset all my settings o f course :/
HWMonitor link is broken.
Beware the link for “HW Monitor for Mac” in Step 2. Looks like the domain may have expired and the site it forwards to looks suspicious. The file HWMonitor.app is now included in the latest release (2018-0915; v6.26) from RehabMan.
Yea it looks like they didn’t renew and it got taken over by someone else I updated the guide.
Steps 2 downloaded viruses!
Thanks for brining that to my attention I fixed the link.