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COMPILATION AND INSTALLATION OF UTILITIES

For support of systems with more than 64 logical cores you need to compile all binaries below in “x64” platform mode (not the default “Win32” mode).

Command-line utility:

1.Compile the windows MSR driver (msr.sys) with Windows DDK Kit (see the sources in the WinMSRDriver directory). For Windows 7 and later versions you have to sign the msr.sys driver additionally (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537361(VS.85).aspx). To enable loading test signed drivers on the system: in administrator cmd console run bcdedit /set testsigning on and reboot).

2.Build the pcm.exe utility in the PCM_Win using Microsoft Visual Studio

3.Copy the msr.sys driver and pcm.exe into a single directory

4.Run pcm.exe utility from this directory

For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 the PCM utilities need to be run as administrator:

Alternatively you can achieve the same using the “Properties” Windows menu of the executable (“Privilege level” setting in the “Compatibilty” tab): Right mouse click -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Privilege level -> Set “Run this program as an administrator”.

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If you are getting the error Starting MSR service failed with error 3 The system cannot find the path specified. try to uninstall the driver by running pcm --uninstallDriver and optionally reboot the system.

Graphical Perfmon front end:

1.Compile the windows MSR driver (msr.sys) with Windows DDK Kit (see the sources in the WinMSRDriver directory). For Windows 7 and later versions you have to sign the msr.sys driver additionally (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537361(VS.85).aspx).

2.Copy msr.sys into the c:\windows\system32 directory

3.Build pcm-lib.dll in the PCM-Lib_Win directory using Microsoft Visual Studio

4.Build 'PCM-Service.exe' in the PCM-Service_Win directory using Microsoft Visual Studio

5.Copy PCM-Service.exe, PCM-Service.exe.config, and pcm-lib.dll files into a single directory

The config file enables support for legacy security policy. Without this configuration switch, you will get an exception like this:

Unhandled Exception: System.NotSupportedException: This method implicitly uses CAS policy, which has been obsoleted by the .NET Framework.

6.With administrator rights execute '"PCM-Service.exe" -Install' from this directory

7.With administrator rights execute 'net start pcmservice'

8.Start perfmon and find new PCM* counters

If you do not want or cannot compile the msr.sys driver you might use a third-party open source WinRing0 driver instead. Instructions:

  1. Download the free RealTemp utility package from http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ or any other free utility that uses the open-source WinRing0 driver (like OpenHardwareMonitor http://code.google.com/p/open-hardware-monitor/downloads/list).
  2. Copy WinRing0.dll, WinRing0.sys, WinRing0x64.dll, WinRing0x64.sys files from there into the PCM.exe binary location, into the PCM-Service.exe location and into c:\windows\system32
  3. Run the PCM.exe tool and/or go to step 6 (perfmon utility).

Known limitations:

Running PCM.exe under Cygwin shell is possible, but due to incompatibilities of signals/events handling between Windows and Cygwin, the PCM may not cleanup PMU configuration after Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Break pressed. The subsequent run of PCM will require to do PMU configuration reset, so adding -r command line option to PCM will be required.