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

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-defined 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-
flow to your system.

System Resource Alert

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5
user of certain system events. For example, you can configure SuperDoctor 5 to provide you
with warnings when the system temperature, CPU temperatures, voltages and fan speeds
go beyond a predefined range.

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
Windows 8/R2, and Windows 2012/R2 operating systems.
. SuperDoctor 5 is used to notify the
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