Special Features; System Health Monitoring - Supermicro X9DRW-CF31 User Manual

X9DRW-CF31/X9DRW-CTF31 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 supports system health monitoring. An voltage monitor will scan the voltages of
onboard chips, memory modules, processors, battery, and other critical components
continuously. Once a 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 onboard BMC chip can check the RPM status of a cooling fan. The onboard
CPU and chassis fans are controlled by the firmware thermal management via
IPMI 2.0.
Environmental Temperature Control
The BMC monitors the CPU temperature 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.
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 system temperature, CPU
temperature, voltages and fan speeds go beyond a predefined range.
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