Would anyone have any idea how to go about writing an application to display/monitor CPU temperature?

I'd like to write something that displays the temperatures as detected by any thermal sensor(s) on the motherboard.

I think there's some x86 instruction for that. Go look it up in your big Intel volume 2 ;)

A search for "Temperature" revealed no clues.

Your motherboard manufacturer should have some utilities you can use for monitoring temperature. Unless you have a really old board or almost-unknown brand... in that case there's some  generic utilites around the web you can try. I think www.tweakfiles.com or www.guru3d.com has something.

I want to write my own, though :)
I've tried disassembling 2 monitors already but both are scrambled. I would PEDump them but one of my harddrives is currently out of my PC, and I can't be bothered to re-download it, just figured someone here might have played with this before.

[quote] link=board=general_prog;num=1047943006;start=0#4 date=03/17/03 at 20:56:28]I want to write my own, though :)
I've tried disassembling 2 monitors already but both are scrambled. I would PEDump them but one of my harddrives is currently out of my PC, and I can't be bothered to re-download it, just figured someone here might have played with this before.[/quote]
Bah, I misread your post... sorry :)

nvm

[quote]I think there's some x86 instruction for that. Go look it up in your big Intel volume 2 ;)[/quote]
Actually, look up "Thermal Monitoring" in volume 3.