Special Features; Pc Health Monitoring - Supermicro Supero X9DRi-LN4F+ User Manual

X9DR3-LN4F+/X9DRi-LN4F+ 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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PC Health Monitoring

This section describes the features of PC health monitoring of the motherboard.
This motherboard has an onboard System_Hardware_Monitor chip that supports PC
health monitoring. An onboard voltage monitor will scan the voltages for processor,
memory, chipset, and battery 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 PC health monitor chip can check the RPM status of a cooling fan. The onboard
CPU and chassis fans are controlled by firmware thermal management via IPMI 2.0.
Environmental Temperature Control
A thermal control sensor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will turn
on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a user-defined
threshold. The overheat circuitry runs independently from the CPU. Once the
thermal management firmware 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 chassis thermal circuitry 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® III in the Windows OS
environment or used with SuperDoctor II in Linux. SuperDoctor is used to notify
the user of certain system events. For example, you can configure SuperDoctor
to provide you with warnings when the system temperature, CPU temperatures,
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