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X8DAL-3/X8DAL-i User's Manual
1-4 Special Features
Recovery from AC Power Loss
BIOS provides a setting for you to determine how the system will respond when
AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose for the system
to remain powered off (in which case you must hit the power switch to turn it back
on) or for it to automatically return to a power- on state. See the Advanced BIOS
Setup section to change this setting. The default setting is Last State.
1-5 PC Health Monitoring (w/SDII or SDIII)
This section describes the PC health monitoring features of the X8DAL-3/X8DAL-i.
All have an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports PC health monitor-
ing via SuperO Doctor II or III. An onboard voltage monitor will scan these onboard
voltages continuously: Vcore1, Vcore2, 1.5V, 5VDD, 5VSB, 12V, -12V, 3.3Vcc,
3.3VSB, VBAT and Vtt. Once a voltage becomes unstable, a warning is given or
an error message is sent to the screen. Users can adjust the voltage thresholds to
defi ne the sensitivity of the voltage monitor.
Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control
The PC health monitor can check the RPM status of the cooling fans. The onboard
CPU and chassis fans are controlled by Thermal Management via BIOS (under
Hardware Monitoring in the Advanced Setting).
Environmental Temperature Control
The thermal control sensor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will turn
on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a user-defi ned
threshold. The overheat circuitry runs independently from the CPU. Once it detects
that the CPU temperature is too high, it will automatically turn on the thermal fan
control to cool down the system, effectively preventing CPU overheating. The
onboard chassis thermal circuitry can monitor the overall system temperature and
alert users when the chassis temperature is too high.
Note: To avoid system overheating, be sure to provide adequate airfl ow
to the system.
System Resource Alert
This feature is available when used with Supero Doctor III in the Windows OS
environment or used with Supero Doctor II in Linux. Supero Doctor is used to
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