Special Features; System Health Monitoring; Recovery From Ac Power Loss; Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control - Supermicro X10QBL-CT User Manual

X10QBL-CT/X10QBL Motherboard User's Manual
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Special Features

Recovery from AC Power Loss

The Basic I/O System (BIOS) provides a setting that determines 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 press the power switch
to turn it back on), or for it to automatically return to the power-on state. See the
Advanced BIOS Setup section for this setting. The default setting is Last State.
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System Health Monitoring

This section describes the features of system health monitoring of the motherboard.
This motherboard has an onboard BaseBoard Management Controller (BMC) chip
that monitors system health. An onboard voltage monitor will scan the following on-
board voltages continuously: +1.2 V, +3.3V, 3.3V standby, +5V, +5V standby, +/-12V,
CPU core, memory, chipset, HT, and battery voltages. Once the voltage becomes
unstable, a warning is given, or an error message is sent to the screen. The user
can adjust the voltage thresholds to define the sensitivity of the voltage monitor.

Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control

The system health monitoring support provided by the BMC controller can check
the RPM status of a cooling fan. The onboard CPU and chassis fan speeds are
controlled by IPMI thermal management.

Environmental Temperature Control

A thermal control sensor in the BMC monitors the CPU temperatures in real time
and will turn on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a
user-defined threshold. Once it detects that the CPU temperature is too high, it will
automatically turn on the thermal fan control to prevent the CPU from overheating.
The onboard BMC can monitor the overall system temperature and alert the user
when the chassis temperature is too high.
Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please be sure to provide
adequate airflow 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 configure
SuperDoctor 5 to provide you with warnings when the system temperature, CPU
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