Pc Health Status; Load Fail-Safe Defaults; Load Optimized Defaults - Abit SA7 User Manual

Introducing the BIOS

4-8. PC Health Status

You can set the warning and shutdown temperatures for your computer system, and you can check the fan
speeds and power supply voltages of your computer system. The features are useful for monitoring all the
important parameters within your computer system. We call it the PC Health Status.
Shutdown Temperature:
Four options are available: 60℃/140℉ ( 65℃/149℉ ( 70℃/158℉ ( Disabled. The default setting
is Disabled. You can set the processorshutdown temperature here. If the processor temperature exceeds
the settings value, system will force to shutdown to protect the processor not overheat.
All Voltages, Fans Speed and Thermal Monitoring:
These items list the current states of the CPU and environment (using RT1 and RT2 to detect them.)
temperatures as well as fan speeds (CPU fan and chassis fan). It cann't be changed by the user. The
following items list the voltage states of the system power. It is also unchangeable.
The hardware monitoring features for temperatures, fans and voltages will occupy the I/O address
from 294H to 297H. If you have a network adapter, sound card or other add-on cards that might use
those I/O addresses, please adjust your add-on card I/O address, to avoid the use of those addresses.

4-9. Load Fail-Safe Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to:
Pressing "Y" loads the BIOS default values for the most stable, minimal-performance system operations.

4-10. Load Optimized Defaults

When you press <Enter> on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to:
Pressing "Y" loads the default values that are factory settings for optimal performance system operations.
Note
Load Fail-Safe Defaults (Y/N)? N
Load Optimized Defaults (Y/N)? N
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