Special Features; Recovery From Ac Power Loss; System Health Monitoring; Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control - Supermicro X10DSN-TS User Manual

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Super X10DSN-TS Motherboard User's Manual

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Special Features

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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This section describes the features of system health monitoring of the motherboard.

This motherboard has an onboard Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) that

supports system health monitoring. An onboard voltage monitor will scan the follow-

ing onboard voltages continuously: +3.3V, 3.3V standby, +5V, +5V standby, +12V,

CPUCore, Memory, PCH, 1.2VBMC, and VBAT. 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.

System health monitoring support provided by the BMC controller can check the

RPM status of a cooling fan. The onboard CPU and chassis fans are controlled by

IPMI Thermal Management.

System health sensors in the BMC monitors temperatures and voltage settings of

onboard processors and the system in real time via the IPMI interface. 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 system from overheating.

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

adequate airflow to your system.

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor 5, which is used to monitor

system hardware and notify the user of certain system events. For example, you

can configure SuperDoctor 5 to warn you when the system temperature, CPU

temperatures, voltages, or fan speeds go beyond a predefined range.

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