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Miles - All the monitors make use of some type of Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI channel for Intel). This channel is a single wire serial comm interface with limited bandwidth. It's also the channel used to report and control fan speeds. It's self timing and syncing based on individual requests to the controller by the CPU. It's not meant to handle any type of multitasking or shared communications. Poorly written and/or multiple software monitors will cause a crash because they are expecting data at a specific address and it may not be there or invalid. I've seen it happen in crash dumps. Just like multiple AVs. Argue with someone else because I've seen it happen. WADR.