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High – The processor is running hot. This is a 'caution' level since the CPU's
'Temperature Tolerance' has been reached (or has been exceeded) and may
activate an overheat alarm:
The information provided above is for your reference only. For more information
on thermal management, please refer to Intel's Web site at www.Intel.com.
System Temperature / Peripheral Temperature
This feature displays the system and peripheral device temperatures, as detected
by the motherboard sensors.
Fan1 ~ Fan5 Speed
This feature displays the fan speed readings from fan interfaces Fan1 through
Fan4 and FanA.
12V, VDIMM, 5VCC, CPU VTT, AVCC, 3.3VCC, VSB, VBAT
This feature displays the current voltages of the above voltage monitors.
ACPI Confi guration
Use this feature to confi gure Advanced Confi guration and Power Interface (ACPI)
power management settings for your system.
High Precision Event Timers
Select Enabled to activate the High Performance Event Timer (HPET) that produces
periodic interrupts at a much higher frequency than a Real-time Clock (RTC) does in
synchronizing multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the de-
pendency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86 RDTSC Instruc-
tion embedded in the CPU. The High Performance Event Timer is used to replace
the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Suspend Mode
This setting allows you to confi gure the ACPI (Advanced Confi guration and Power
Interface) sleep state for your system when it is in the Suspend mode. The options
are Suspend Disabled, and S1 (POS).
WHEA Support
This feature Enables the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) support
for the Windows 2008 operating system (and later versions). The options are
Enabled and Disabled.
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