Acpi Features; Power Supply; System Reboot - Supermicro X13DEG-M User Manual

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Super X13DEG-M User's Manual

Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please be sure to provide adequate air-

flow to your system.

1.5 ACPI Features

ACPI stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. The ACPI specification defines

a flexible 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 configuration control. ACPI leverages the Plug and Play BIOS data structures,

while providing a processor architecture-independent implementation that is compatible with

appropriate Windows operating systems. For detailed information regarding OS support,

please refer to the Supermicro website.

As with all computer products, a stable power source is necessary for proper and reliable

operation. It is even more important for processors that have high CPU clock rates where

noisy power transmission is present.

It is strongly recommended that you only use Supermicro approved redundant power supply

units for the Supermicro system chassis.

This motherboard, intended to be used in a Supermicro GPU server, supports an innovative

cooling technology, which will continue cooling down the system even after shutting down.

After the system is shutdown, the power button LED on the front panel will start to blink green,

indicating that the cooling procedure is in progress. This cooling procedure will take 120

seconds to complete. When the procedure is complete, the power button LED will turn solid

amber. We recommend the user to allow this cooling procedure to complete before issuing

a power-on command or removing power cable(s) from the system.

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