Supermicro X11SAE-M - System Health Monitoring; Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control; Environmental Temperature Control; System Resource Alert

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.4 System Health Monitoring
This section describes the health monitoring features of the X11SAE-M motherboard. The
motherboard has an onboard Super I/O (SIO) chip that supports system health monitoring.
Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control
The system health monitor embedded in the SIO chip can check the RPM status of the cooling
fans. The CPU and chassis fans are controlled via SlO chip.
Environmental Temperature Control
System Health sensors in the SIO chip monitor the temperatures and voltage settings of
onboard processors and the system in real time via the SIO chip. Whenever the temperature
of the CPU or the system exceeds a user-dened threshold, system/CPU cooling fans will
be turned on to prevent the CPU or the system from overheating.
Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please be sure to provide adequate air-
ow to your system.
System Resource Alert
This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5
®
. SuperDoctor 5 is used to notify the
user of certain system events. For example, you can congure SuperDoctor 5 to provide you
with warnings when the system temperature, CPU temperatures, voltages and fan speeds
go beyond a predened range.
1.5 ACPI Features
ACPI stands for Advanced Conguration and Power Interface. The ACPI specication denes
a exible and abstract hardware interface that provides a standard way to integrate power
management features throughout a computer system including its hardware, operating system
and application software. This enables the system to automatically turn on and off peripherals
such as network cards, hard disk drives and printers.
In addition to enabling operating system-directed power management, ACPI also provides a
generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play and an operating system-independent
interface for conguration control. ACPI leverages the Plug and Play BIOS data structures
while providing a processor architecture-independent implementation that is compatible with
Windows 8/R2, and Windows 2012/R2 operating systems.